Much slower day today with only 16 new birds and 2 recaptures. It looks like this trend may continue for a while. Painted Buntings and Prairie Warblers are the predominate species right now. Most of the Prairie Warblers are full of fat and on-the-go. While the Painted Buntings still have to start and/or finish their prebasic molt, so they will be with us for a while longer. The highlight today was a first-of-the-season Brown Thrasher.
-Aaron
NEW BIRDS
1 Northern Mockingbird
1 Brown Thrasher
5 Prairie Warbler
1 American Redstart
1 Prothonotary Warbler
7 Painted Bunting
RECAPTURES
1 Carolina Wren
1 Painted Bunting
BANDING STATS
# of Birds Banded: 16
# of Recaptures: 2
# of Species: 7
Effort: 120.0 net-hours
Capture Rate: 15.0 birds/100 net-hours
# of Nets: 20
BANDING STAFF
Aaron Given
Mattie VandenBoom
Libby Natola
