The thermometer read 32.3 degrees when I arrived at the banding table this morning. The sand crunched underneath my feet like I was walking on a fresh snow after a hard freeze. I had to delay opening the nets until around 8:00am due to the cold temperatures. The wind was fairly calm when I arrived but quickly increased to strong gusts around 20 mph. This caused me to not open all of the nets as I had planned to do. The wind then calmed down again around 10:30am but the bird activity continued to be slow and I only banded 5 new bird and had 6 recaptures of 4 different species.
Happy Thanksgiving!
- Aaron
NEW BIRDS
1 Carolina Chickadee
1 Gray Catbird
3 Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)
RECAPTURES
1 Carolina Chickadee
1 Gray Catbird
3 Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)
1 Song Sparrow
BANDING STATS
# of Birds Banded: 5
# of Recaptures: 6
# of Species: 4
Effort: 42.9 net-hours
Capture Rate: 25.6 birds/100 net-hours
# of Nets: 11
