It was another slow day with only 15 birds banded and 6 recaptures of 8 different species. We are two weeks into the fall migration season and things appear to be a little better than last year at this same point. We have banded 390 birds so far this season (103 more birds than last year). The following is a list of species that that have had a fairly significant change in the number of individuals banded between 2014 and 2013. Numbers in parentheses indicates the number of birds banded in 2013 up to August 28th.
Northern Mockingbird 3 (34)
Northern Waterthrush 33 (14)
American Redstart 36 (25)
Yellow Warbler 16 (4)
Prairie Warbler 111 (46)
Painted Bunting 78 (70)
-Aaron
NEW BIRDS
3 Carolina Wren
1 Northern Waterthrush
1 American Redstart
2 Yellow Warbler
5 Prairie Warbler
1 Yellow-breasted Chat
2 Painted Bunting
RECAPTURES
1 Prairie Warbler
1 Northern Cardinal
4 Painted Bunting
BANDING STATS
# of Birds Banded: 15
# of Recaptures: 6
# of Species: 8
Effort: 104.0 net-hours
Capture Rate: 20.2 birds/100 net-hours
# of Nets: 20
BANDING STAFF
Aaron Given
Mattie VandenBoom
Libby Natola
Matt Zak
