November 3rd, 2014

Today was another cold morning which pushed back our start time to 6:55am. Unlike the past two days, the winds seemed to slow down which allowed us to open all of the nets. Once the birds started to move around we were able to catch a good diversity of birds with a total of 17 different species. Overall today we processed 74 birds, 54 new and 20 recaptures. 

NEW BIRDS
2 House Wren

2 Golden-crowned Kinglet
4 Ruby-crowned Kinglet

3 Hermit Thrush
1 Gray Catbird
2 Common Yellowthroat

1 Palm Warbler (western)
29 Yellow-tumped Warbler (Myrtle)
2 Song Sparrow

5 Swamp Sparrow

1 White-throated Sparrow

2 Painted Bunting

RECAPTURES
1 Common Ground Dove

1 Carolina Chickadee

2 Carolina Wren

1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet

1 Hermit Thrush

6 Gray Catbird

1 Northern Mockingbird

1 Palm Warbler (western)

3 Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)
2 Swamp Sparrow

1 Northern Cardinal

BANDING STATS
# of Birds Banded:  54
# of Recaptures:  20
# of Species:  17
Effort:  132.25 net-hours
Capture Rate:  56.0 birds/100 net-hours
# of Nets:  23

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