Bird Life ALL the Way

Yo, yo, I bet you read this blog every day

Today for sure I’m gonna do it a different way

A ridiculous attempt at poetry ain’t that funny

I’m just one banding assistant named C-money

Birders like my style,

Straight raw like Peter Pyle

Working seven days a week, without even a care

Six hours a day, snatching birds out the air

We catch em’

We band em’

We weigh em’ and count em’

It’s all about the data

Don’t be a lame hata’

Those big booty feathers are fun to feel

Where’s that phat, along the keel?

Butterbutts be trumping and climbing the charts

Even ones from 2011, pretty old farts

This ain’t no reg Regulidae, I don’t care what you say

Look at this “orange” crowned kinglet we caught today

Ruby-crowned Kinglet (AHY female)

Birds, they come and they go

Sometimes we catch ones we used to know

Perhaps we’ll see if they come back in the spring

Dontcha know that every bird with bling sings?

- C$

I’ll break it down for ya…

NEW  BIRDS

2 Common Ground-Dove

1 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

5 Eastern Phoebe

1 Golden-crowned Kinglet

13 Ruby-crowned Kinglet

1 Swainson’s Thrush

7 Hermit Thrush

1 Gray Catbird

103 Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)

3 Palm Warbler (Western)

1 Painted Bunting

6 Song Sparrow

4 Swamp Sparrow

RECAPTURES

1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet

4 Gray Catbird

4 Yellow-rumped Warbler

1 Northern Cardinal

BANDING STATS

# of Birds Banded:  148

# of Recaptures:  10

# of Species:  14

Effort:  105.0 net-hours

Capture Rate:  150.5 birds/100 net-hours

# of Nets:  20