Tuesday, August 17, 2021

A Visit From One of Fred's Bands

Captain Sam's:

We woke up this morning to the sound of thunder and rain, courtesy of tropical storm Fred. Even though Fred made landfall on the Florida panhandle, the weather system still sent a band of heavy rain barreling into the South Carolina coast this morning. After delaying opening for a couple hours the radar suggested clear skies over Kiawah from 9am onwards, so we headed out and opened the mist nets. After a couple net runs it was obvious that there were not many birds moving around today. We were still treated to our first-of-season Eastern Towhee, a recaptured female which was first captured and banded when it was a juvenile last August. We also got a couple young Great Crested Flycatchers with nice molt limits and a token Cardinal. 

We closed down after only an hour and a half, then headed back to the Little Bear site and finished setting up the nets there. We're still a couple days away from actually starting banding on the east end of the island, but it feels good to have everything set up for both stations now. 

--Josh

  Species  Captain Sam'sLittle Bear
NewRecapsNewRecaps
Great Crested Flycatcher
11--
Eastern Towhee
-1--
Northern Cardinal 
-1--



Today's Banding StatsCaptain Sam'sLittle BearTOTAL
# Birds Banded
1
-
1
# of Recaptures
3
-
3
# of Species
3
-
3
Effort (net-hours)
42.0
-
42.0
Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours)
9.5
-
9.5
# of Nets
30
-
-


2021 Fall Cumulative Banding Stats Captain Sam'sLittle BearTOTAL
# Birds Banded
38
-
38
# of Recaptures
10
-
10
# of Species
15
-
15
Effort (net-hours)
301.5
-
301.5
Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours)
15.9
-
15.9
# of Days3--

Banding Staff

Aaron Given
Ben Stalheim
Kandace Glanville
Nate Watkins
Josh Lefever