September 10, 2016

Captain Sam's 

Today at Captain Sam’s we had 8 new birds and 5 recaptures comprised of 11 species.  We have finally made it passed the 500 new bird mark for the season.  At this point in the season in past years, we have usually been well above 600 new birds for the season.  The low numbers are likely due to the weather pattern we have been stuck in.  We have yet to have a cold front come through and overnight winds have mainly been out of the south which is not conducive for fall migration.  Though we haven’t had that many migrants the past few days, it seems we have had a small dispersal of resident birds.  Today we had several new Northern Cardinals and a new Carolina Chickadee.  

-Mattie   

Carolina Chickadee (hatch-year, unknown sex)

 

Little Bear

At Little Bear we had a total of 23 birds captured. Many of the birds were recaptures today which is a sign that the winds are currently holding the birds here instead of pushing them South. This allowed us another glimpse at a few birds we've had in the past but we did get a first of season Western Palm Warbler which was very exciting.

-Collette

First of season Palm Warbler

Species	Captain Sam's		Little Bear
	New	Recaps	New	Recaps
White-eyed Vireo	-	-	-	1
Red-eyed Vireo	2	-	2	-
Carolina Chickadee	1	-	-	-
Carolina Wren	-	1	-	-
Brown Thrasher	1	-	-	1
Ovenbird	-	1	1	-
Common Yellowthroat	1	-	1	3
Yellow Warbler	-	-	1	1
Chestnut-sided Warbler	-	1	-	-
Western Palm Warbler	-	-	1	-
Prairie Warbler	-	-	2	-
Northern Waterthrush	-	-	1	-
Yellow-breasted Chat	-	1	1	-
Northern Cardinal	3	-	-	-
Painted Bunting	-	1	2	2

Banding Stats	Captain Sam's	Little Bear	TOTAL
# Birds Banded	8	12	20
# of Recaptures	5	11	16
# of Species	10	11	15
Effort (net-hours)	124.8	70.0	194.0
Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours)	10.4	32.8	18.5
Nets	26	20	46

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