Friday, August 31, 2012

Friday's Results

Things are starting to look up!  Bird activity seems to be increasing everyday.  Hopefully the trend will continue.   

 

Today we banded 22 new birds with 5 recaptures of 11 different species.  Northern Waterthrushes dominated the nets again with 8 banded.  Highlights included 2 YELLOW WARBLERS and another VEERY.  


Yellow Warbler (hatch-year, female)
   

Northern Waterthrush


NEW BIRDS

2 Traill's Flycatcher

1 White-eyed Vireo

3 Red-eyed Vireo

1 Veery

1 Northern Mockingbird

2 Yellow Warbler

1 American Redstart

8 Northern Waterthrush

3 Common Yellowthroat

 

RECAPTURES

1 White-eyed Vireo

1 Carolina Wren

1 Common Yellowthroat

2 Northern Cardinal

 

BANDING STATS

Effort:  80.0 net-hours

Capture Rate: 33.8 birds/100 net-hours

# of Nets:  16