We had another decent day of banding with 70 new birds and 18 recaptures of 14 species. It started out with a flurry of birds, and quickly turned into a trickle by 9:30am. That's usually how it goes this time of year. We get large flocks of Yellow-rumped Warblers early in the morning, they move through, and then they are gone. Later in November when the the Yellow-rumps have presumably "settled-in" for the winter, we can catch large flocks throughout the entire day.
On a side note, we banded our 4000th bird of the season today! Last year we didn't hit that mark until November 3rd and not until November 8th in 2012.
NEW BIRDS
1 Sharp-shinned Hawk
1 Eastern Phoebe
3 House Wren
3 Ruby-crowned Kinglet
1 Hermit Thrush
7 Gray Catbird
1 Brown Thrasher
6 Common Yellowthroat
39 Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)
1 Eastern Towhee
1 Song Sparrow
6 Swamp Sparrow
RECAPTURES
1 Sharp-shinned Hawk
1 Carolina Wren
1 House Wren
12 Gray Catbird
1 Eastern Towhee
1 Song Sparrow
1 Northern Cardinal
BANDING STATS
# of New Birds: 70
# of Recaptures: 18
Effort: 128.8 net-hours
Capture Rate: 68.3 birds/100 net-hours
# of Nets: 23
BANDING STAFF
Aaron Given
Mattie VandenBoom
Libby Natola
Matt Zak
