FOS: House Wren and House Finch

We had another productive day at the banding station with 57 new birds and 12 recaptures of 18 species.  For the second day in a row we had very good species richness.  As we approach October, I expect the species richness to increase even more.  We had two more first-of-the-seasons:  House Wren and House Finch.  I thought this was fairly early for House Wren but after looking back at previous seasons, it is right on schedule.

House Finch (Hatch, male)

I am always amazed by the eye color of Common Ground-Doves!

Common Ground-Dove (male)

-Aaron

NEW BIRDS
1 "Traill's" Flycatcher
6 White-eyed Vireo
7 Red-eyed Vireo
1 House Wren
6 Gray Catbird
1 Brown Thrasher
2 Northern Waterthrush
1 Black-and-White Warbler
2 Prothonotary Warbler
22 Common Yellowthroat
1 American Redstart
1 Northern Parula
1 Palm Warbler (Western)
3 Prairie Warbler
1 Painted Bunting
1 House Finch

RECAPTURES
1 Downy Woodpecker
1 "Traill's" Flycatcher
1 White-eyed Vireo
1 Red-eyed Vireo
3 Common Yellowthroat
2 Northern Cardinal
3 Painted Bunting

BANDING STATS
# of New Birds:  57
# of Recaptures:  12
# of Species:  18
Effort:  120.0 net-hours
Capture Rate:  57.5 birds/100 net-hours
# of Nets:  20

BANDING STAFF
Aaron Given
William Oakley
Libby Natola
Matt Zak