Friday, August 28, 2015

FOS: Eastern Wood-Pewee

Despite the north winds last night, the bird activity was still slow with 19 new birds and 4 recaptures.  A species that may have taken advantage of the north winds was the Red-eyed Vireo, who made up more than half of the new birds banded today.  Mixed in with all the Red-eyes was our first-of-the-season Eastern Wood-Pewee.        

-Mattie  

NEW BIRDS
1 Eastern Wood-Pewee
11 Red-eyed Vireo
1 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1 Northern Waterthrush
2 Black and White Warbler
1 Prothonotary Warbler
1 Yellow Warbler
1 Painted Bunting

RECAPTURES
1 Carolina Chickadee
1 Prairie Warbler
1 Northern Cardinal
1 Painted Bunting

BANDING STATS
# of Birds Banded:  19
# of Recaptures:  4
# of Species:  11
Effort:  125.0 net-hours
Capture Rate:  18.4 birds/100 net-hours

BANDING STAFF
Aaron Given
Chris Snook
Mattie VandenBoom
Nancy Raginski
Ryan Donnelly