First Day of the 2014 Fall Banding Season

The 2014 fall banding season is underway and it started out with bang!  We banded 69 new birds and had 4 recaptures of 15 different species.  This is by far the best "first day" we have had in the 6 years of banding during fall migration.  We had many of the usual suspects for this time of year - lots of hatch-year Painted Buntings and Northern Cardinals along with a smattering of Carolina Chickadees, Carolina Wrens, and Northern Mockingbirds.  Neotropical migrants made a good showing as well with many Prairie Warblers, Northern Waterthrushes, and American Restarts.

-Aaron

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

Northern Waterthrush

Prothonotary Warbler

NEW BIRDS
1 Common Ground-Dove
1 Downy Woodpecker
1 Great Crested Flycatcher
3 Carolina Chickadee
2 Carolina Wren
2 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
2 Northern Mockingbird
16 Prairie Warbler
6 American Redstart
1 Yellow Warbler
1 Prothonotary Warbler
1 Black-and-White Warbler
7 Northern Waterthrush
9 Northern Cardinal
16 Painted Bunting

RECAPTURES
1 Northern Cardinal
3 Painted Bunting

BANDING STATS
# of Birds Banded:  69
# of Recaptures: 4
# of Species:  15
Effort:  134.0 net-hours
Capture Rate:  54.5 birds/100 net-hours

BANDING STAFF
Aaron Given
Jill Midgett