October 28, 2016

Captain Sam's 

The catch was a bit better at Captain Sam’s today with 54 new birds and 29 recaptures, comprised of 13 species.  Yellow-rumped Warblers, as they always do this time of year, made up a majority of catch with 40 new and 10 recaptures.  The highlight of our day was the first-of-the-season Sharp-shinned Hawk.  Today was also the first day since September 1^st that not a single Common Yellowthroat was banded.  Our next major cold front is set to move through in about week, which means we will likely see similar capture rates over the next few days. 

 

Little Bear

Little Bear was recapture central today making up over 30% of our captures. Myrtle Yellow-rumped Warblers stayed barely ahead of catbirds with only 4 more total. We were quite excited to get three Common Ground-Doves. They're always a joy to have.

Species	Captain Sam's		Little Bear
	New	Recaps	New	Recaps
Common Ground-Dove	-	-	-	3
Sharp-shinned Hawk	1	-	-	-
Downy Woodpecker	-	-	-	1
Eastern Phoebe	1	-	-	-
White-eyed Vireo	1	-	-	-
Carolina Chickadee	-	-	-	1
House Wren	1	1	-	-
Carolina Wren	-	1	1	1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet	3	1	1	-
Hermit Thrush	1	-	-	-
Gray Catbird	1	14	16	27
Brown Thrasher	-	-	1	-
Tennessee Warbler	-	-	1	-
Orange-crowned Warbler	-	-	1	-
Common Yellowthroat	-	-	2	-
Yellow Warbler	-	-	-	1
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)	40	10	42	7
Eastern Towhee	1	-	-	1
Song Sparrow	1	-	2	-
Swamp Sparrow	3	-	6	2
Northern Cardinal	-	1	-	1
Indigo Bunting	-	-	1	-
	-	-	-	-

Banding Stats	Captain Sam's	Little Bear	TOTAL
# Birds Banded	54	74	128
# of Recaptures	28	45	73
# of Species	13	17	22
Effort (net-hours)	145.6	120.0	265.6
Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours)	56.3	99.2	75.7
# of Nets	26	20	46

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