The banding assistants have arrived! Welcome - DeeAnne, Meghan, and Michael! For the first time this fall, we opened all 16 nets however the bird activity was still rather slow. We banded 17 new bird with 7 recaptures of 9 different species.
THE RESULTS
NEW BIRDS
6 American Redstarts
2 Prairie Warbler
1 Yellow Warbler
1 Common Yellowthroat
1 Red-eyed Vireo
1 Downy Woodpecker
1 Painted Bunting
4 Northern Cardinal
RECAPTURES
1 Prairie Warbler
1 Carolina Wren
3 Painted Bunting
2 Northern Cardinal
BANDING STATS
Effort: 86.4 net-hours
Capture Rate: 27.8 birds/100 net-hours
# of Nets: 16
