October 3rd 2014

Today was another slow day at the banding station. The temperature was again up and the winds were coming in from the south west with the cloud cover increasing as the day went on. There was a limited bird migration during the night due to unfavorable winds fom the south west. We also had another bobcat sighting today between nets two and fourteen which, is very close to the banding station.

NEW BIRDS

1 Alder Flycatcher  

2 White-eyed Vireo

6 Red-eyed Vireo
19 Gray Catbird
1 Brown Thrasher

2 Northern Waterthrush
3 Common Yellowthroat
2 American Redstart

RECAPTURES
1 White-eyed Vireo
6 Gray Catbird

1 Northern Cardinal
1 American Redstart


BANDING STATS
# of New Birds:  36
# of Recaptures:  10
# of Species:  10
Effort:  108.0 net-hours
Capture Rate:  42.6 birds/100 nets-hours
# of Nets:  20

BANDING STAFF
Aaron Given
Matt Zak
William Oakley

October 2, 2014

Whoops, this banding assistant fell asleep without updating the blog last night! So here are yesterday's results. Yesterday was considerably slower than Thursday, we caught 56 birds (41 of which were gray catbirds!) and 12 recaptures from 12 different species. While we did not have any new or noteworthy species of bird yesterday, we did see four different bobcats at the station, what appeared to be a female and her three kittens. It looks like Aaron will have some radio-collaring to do!

NEW BIRDS
2 Carolina Chickadee
41 Gray Catbird
1 Ovenbird
7 Common Yellowthroat
1 American Redstart
1 Yellow Warbler
1 Black-throated Blue Warbler
2 Painted Bunting

RECAPTURES
1 Downy Woodpecker
2 White-eyed Vireo
1 Ovenbird
5 Gray Catbird
1 Brown Thrasher1 House Wren
1 American Redstart


BANDING STATS
# of New Birds:  56
# of Recaptures:  12
# of Species:  12
Effort:  116.0 net-hours
Capture Rate:  58.6 birds/100 nets-hours
# of Nets:  20

BANDING STAFF
Aaron Given
Mattie VandenBoom
Matt Zak
Libby Natola
William Oakley