Thursday, October 7, 2021

Catbirds and Yellowthroats

 Captain Sam's:

After a very rainy week, we anticipated that today would be another washed out rain day. We were pleasantly surprised to not get any rain today, so we were able to keep the nets open all morning, which allowed us to catch 72 birds! It was just me and Kristin out there, so we stayed busy and the day went by fast. Around 9:30am the tide came in and it was at its highest that it's been all season. We raised up the bottom pockets of a lot of the mist nets, as the water was almost getting to be overtop the knee-high muck boots we were wearing. Not much variety in species today - it was mostly Gray Catbirds and Common Yellowthroats as it often seems to be. My favorite sighting today was a rabbit SWIMMING under net 0! That was when the tide was at its highest, it must not have been expecting all of that water.


-Kandace


Little Bear:

At Little Bear, we encountered more birds than we expected, but most of those were common yellowthroats. In fact, they made up more than half of our days' captures. The rains finally decided to part which gave us the opportunity for a more regular day of banding. Although we had no new visitors or anything very noteworthy, it was just a nice day out in preparation for what is hopefully a more prevalent few days to come.

-Ben

  Species  Captain Sam'sLittle Bear
NewRecapsNewRecaps
Traill's Flycatcher
1---
White-eyed Vireo
-1--
Red-eyed Vireo
1---
House Wren
31-1
Gray Catbird
211571
Common Yellowthroat
201261
American Redstart
4-1-
Yellow Warbler
--1-
(Western) Palm Warbler
1-3-
Prairie Warbler
--2-
Northern Cardinal
-2-2
Indigo Bunting
--2-
Painted Bunting1-1-


Today's Banding StatsCaptain Sam'sLittle BearTOTAL
# Birds Banded
52
43
95
# of Recaptures
20
5
25
# of Species
10
10
13
Effort (net-hours)
165.2
119.4
284.6
Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours)
43.6
40.2
42.2
# of Nets
30
23
53

2021 Fall Cumulative Banding Stats Captain Sam'sLittle BearTOTAL
# Birds Banded
2205
1377
3582
# of Recaptures
356
191
547
# of Species
57
52
66
Effort (net-hours)
6750.4
4589
11,339.4
Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours)
37.9
34.2
36.4
# of Days5045-

Banding Staff


Kristin Attinger (CS)
Kandace Glanville (CS)
Ben Stalheim (LB)
Josh Lefever (LB)

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