The rain started around 5:45am and the radar showed no sign of clearing for several hours so we all went back to bed. But I continued to monitor the radar and the rain cleared out around 10:30am so I decided to give it another try. The wind was much much stronger than the weather websites claimed but we were able to open a handful of nets for an hour and a half before it got too gusty to band birds safely.
We banded 11 new birds and had 4 recaptures of 4 different species.
NEW BIRDS
1 Hermit Thrush
10 Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)
RECAPTURES
2 Carolina Chickadee
2 Gray Catbird (1 originally banded on 11/08/2010)
BANDING STATS
# of Birds Banded: 11
# of Recaptures: 4
# of Species: 4
Effort: 12.6 net-hours
Capture Rate: 119.0 birds/100 net-hours
# of Nets: 9
