Sunday's Results

Sorry I missed yesterday's post - I was not feeling well after banding but I just posted yesterday's results here:  http://kiawahislandbanding.blogspot.com/2012/09/saturdays-results_23.html 

 

We banded 60 new birds and had 1 recapture of 15 species today.  Palm Warblers gave Common Yellowthroats a run for their money early in the morning, but Palms were eventually edged out by the end of the day.  We had a good diversity of species as well as two new species for the 2012 fall season:  House Wren and Wood Thrush.  

 

I am predicting that the next two days will be very good for banding with north winds and much cooler temperatures.  Unfortunately for the Chicago Cubs (which I am currently watching as I write this post), the wind is blowing in from left field but that is the right direction for good bird migration!



Magnolia Warbler (after hatch-year, male)




House Wren (after hatch-year, sex unknown)




Wood Thrush (hatch-year, sex unknown)



NEW BIRDS

1 Common Ground-Dove

1 White-eyed Vireo

1 House Wren

1 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

4 Swainson's Thrush

1 Wood Thrush

1 Magnolia Warbler

8 Black-throated Blue Warbler

14 Palm Warbler

4 American Redstart

21 Common Yellowthroat

1 Yellow-breasted Chat

1 Indigo Bunting

1 Painted Bunting

 

RECAPTURES

1 Northern Cardinal

 

BANDING STATS

# of New Birds:  60

# of Recaptures: 1

# of Species:  15

Effort:  73.6 net-hours

Capture Rate:  82.9 birds/100 net-hours

# of Nets:  16

Saturday's Results

I was feeling a bit under the weather after banding yesterday and wasn't able to do my normal write-up.  So here it is a day late . . .

 

As expected, we had a rather slow morning with 17 new birds and 2 recaptures of 11 different species.  "Big" birds were well represented today with a Veery, Swainson's Thrush, Gray Catbird, 3 Northern Mockingbirds, and an Eastern Towhee. 



Eastern Towhee (after hatch-year, male)



These two Northern Mockingbirds were caught together in the same net.  The bird on the left is an adult while the bird on the right is a juvenile.  Two obvious characteristics stood out when we were determining their age.  The first is eye color; note the bright yellow eye on the adult compared to the dull yellow eye in the juvenile.  The other thing we noticed was that the juvenile had spotting on the upper breast and the adult had a clean white breast.  

Northern Mockingbird (left:  after hatch-year, right:  hatch-year)



NEW BIRDS

1 White-eyed Vireo

2 Red-eyed Vireo

1 Veery

1 Swainson's Thrush

1 Gray Catbird

3 Northern Mockingbird

1 Prairie Warbler

1 Northern Waterthrush

4 Common Yellowthroat

1 Eastern Towhee

1 Painted Bunting

 

RECAPTURES

1 Northern Waterthrush

1 Painted Bunting

 

BANDING STATS

# of New Birds:  17

# of Recaptures:  2

# of Species:  11

Effort:  68.8 net-hours

Capture Rate:  27.6 birds/100 net-hours

# of Nets:  16