4 September 2016

Captain Sam's

Today we started to see the beginning of Common Yellowthroat season. On our first day back to Captain Sam's since the storm we saw a larger number of birds than we have for the past week with a total of 40 new birds and 7 recaptures. A little less than half of the new birds were Common Yellowthroats but we did get another Prothonotary Warbler along with a few Northern Waterthrush and an Ovenbird. Hopefully the season will start to pick up in the next few days.

Young molting Northern Cardinal

Little Bear
We did not do as well as Captain Sam's today with 21 new birds and 7 recaptures of 11 species. We had our usual migrant and resident suspects this morning. The most interesting capture was a female Painted Bunting that we banded as a second-year on September 14, 2015 at Little Bear. It was the first time we recaptured her since we banded her last fall. We also added new net 18 yesterday and were able to open it for the first time today, but it did not catch anything unfortunately. We are definitely looking forward to when migration picks up!

-Michael

Species	Captain Sam's		Little Bear
	New	Recaps	New	Recaps
Willow Flycatcher Alder Flycatcher "Traill's" Flycatcher	1 1 -	- - -	- - 2	- - -
Red-eyed Vireo	2	-	1	-
Carolina Chickadee	-	1	-	1
Carolina Wren	-	2	3	-
Ovenbird	1	-	-	-
Northern Waterthrush	4	-	1	-
Black-and-white Warbler	-	-	1	-
Prothonotary Warbler	1	-	-	-
Common Yellowthroat	15	-	3	-
American Redstart	5	-	2	-
Northern Parula	1	-	-	-
Prairie Warbler	5	-	6	-
Northern Cardinal	1	3	-	3
Painted Bunting	3	1	2	3

Banding Stats	Captain Sam's	Little Bear	TOTAL
# Birds Banded	40	21	61
# of Recaptures	7	7	14
# of Species	15	11	14
Effort (net-hours)	142.7	72.0	214.7
Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours)	32.9	38.9	34.9
Nets	25	18	43

Banding Staff
Aaron Given (CS)
Mattie VandenBoom (CS)
Blaine Carnes (LB)
Michael Gamble (LB)
Alison Nevins (CS)
Col Lauzau (CS)
Michael Rodgers (CS)
Ryan Donelly (LB)