Tuesday, September 29, 2015

FOS: Blue Jay, Blue Grosbeak and Scarlet Tanager!

Captain Sam's 
Although numbers remained fairly low at Captain Sam's today, with just 40 new birds and 12 recaptures of 16 species, it was quite an exciting today, with three first-of-season species and the wonderful Master Naturalists class joining us for a surprisingly diverse day of banding in extremely high tides. The firsts were not one but two Blue Jays, a beautiful hatch-year female Scarlet Tanager, and a Blue Grosbeak. With the high tides peaking today, at mid-thigh heights no less, we were not expecting so much activity and diversity but were happy to share it with a class of very interested naturalists.

-Casey

Scarlet Tanager (hatch-year, female) 

Blue Grosbeak (Hatch-year, sex unknown)

Blue Jay (hatch year, sex unknown)

Little Bear 
We did a little better today at Little Bear with 44 new birds and 7 recaptures, comprised of 12 species.  Gray Catbirds and Common Yellowthroats were tied for the most numerous species with 15 each.  Over the next few weeks Common Yellowthroats will begin to taper off as Gray Catbirds begin to reach their season peak.  A front is slowly making its way across the country and should be arriving in our area around Thursday, so we may have a big day in the near future.

-Mattie


  Species Captain Sam's Little Bear
New Recaps New Recaps
White-eyed Vireo -1 1 2
Red-eyed Vireo1 2 - -
Blue Jay 1 1 - -
Carolina Wren -- - 1
Gray Catbird14 2 15 -
Brown Thrasher 1 - - -
Veery 3 - - -
Northern Waterthrush 1 - 1 -
Common Yellowthroat 12 2 15 2
American Redstart 2 - - -
Yellow Warbler - - 1 -
Palm Warbler (Western) 1 - 2 -
Prairie Warbler 1 - 1 -
Yellow-breasted Chat - 1 - -
Eastern Towhee - - 1 -
Scarlet Tanager 1 - - -
Northern Cardinal - 2 3 1
Blue Grosbeak 1 - - -
Indigo Bunting - - 1 -
Painted Bunting 1 1 3 1


 Banding Stats Captain Sam's Little Bear TOTAL
# Birds Banded 40 44 84
# of Recaptures 12 7 19
# of Species 16 12 20
Effort (net-hours) 132.5 75.0 207.5
Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours) 39.2 68.0 107.2
Nets 25 15 40

Banding Staff
Aaron Given (CS)
Mattie VandenBoom (LB)
Nancy Raginski (LB)
Sean McElaney (CS)
Casey Weissburg (CS)
Micheal Gamble (LB)
Ryan Donnelly (CS)