Captain Sam's
Today seemed to have promise from the start. As we were walking out to the site this morning we could hear a bunch of birds making flight calls. We were hoping that we were not going to get slammed because there was only three of us. Half way through the first net run our fourth person decided to come out and help us as the radar from the night before looked good. It was a good thing too, because we caught 113 birds in our first net run! In the end it turned out to be the best day of the season for Captain Sam's thus far. We banded 255 birds of which; 159 were Common Yellowthroats, and caught 18 recaps bringing the total to 273 birds of 25 different species.
Little Bear
When we arrived at Little Bear this morning we could hear quite a few flight calls from birds passing overhead, and it seemed like we would be in for a busy morning (and only 3 of us were at the station today). The first check of the nets produced 24 birds and then the second had another 59. Things slowed down some after that but we were consistently bringing back between 10 and 20 more birds each time we went to check the nets. We ended the morning at 10:30 when the temperature out in the dunes got too warm to keep the nets open any longer. Although our total of 128 new birds and 9 recaptures doesn't seem like much compared to what they had at Captain Sam's, we stayed short-handed the whole time.
As I'm finishing up this post I've been looking at the radar, and the whole east coast is lit up with migrating birds. Tomorrow may be pretty good too.
--Blaine
Banding Staff
Aaron Given (CS)
Blaine Carnes (LB)
Mattie VandenBoom (CS)
Alison Nevins (LB)
Col Lauzau (LB)
Michael Gamble (CS)
Michael Rodgers (CS)
Today seemed to have promise from the start. As we were walking out to the site this morning we could hear a bunch of birds making flight calls. We were hoping that we were not going to get slammed because there was only three of us. Half way through the first net run our fourth person decided to come out and help us as the radar from the night before looked good. It was a good thing too, because we caught 113 birds in our first net run! In the end it turned out to be the best day of the season for Captain Sam's thus far. We banded 255 birds of which; 159 were Common Yellowthroats, and caught 18 recaps bringing the total to 273 birds of 25 different species.
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| Just a snapshot of what we had this morning (this was after about half of the birds from the first net round were processed). |
Little Bear
When we arrived at Little Bear this morning we could hear quite a few flight calls from birds passing overhead, and it seemed like we would be in for a busy morning (and only 3 of us were at the station today). The first check of the nets produced 24 birds and then the second had another 59. Things slowed down some after that but we were consistently bringing back between 10 and 20 more birds each time we went to check the nets. We ended the morning at 10:30 when the temperature out in the dunes got too warm to keep the nets open any longer. Although our total of 128 new birds and 9 recaptures doesn't seem like much compared to what they had at Captain Sam's, we stayed short-handed the whole time.
As I'm finishing up this post I've been looking at the radar, and the whole east coast is lit up with migrating birds. Tomorrow may be pretty good too.
--Blaine
| Species | Captain Sam's | Little Bear | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New | Recaps | New | Recaps | |
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
|
1
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
"Traill's" Flycatcher
|
2
|
-
|
1
|
-
|
White-eyed Vireo
|
20
|
6
|
19
|
-
|
Red-eyed Vireo
|
17
|
2
|
15
|
-
|
Carolina Chickadee
|
1
|
3
|
1
|
-
|
House Wren
|
1
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
Carolina Wren
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
2
|
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
|
1
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
Veery
|
3
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
Swainson's Thrush
|
2
|
-
|
2
|
-
|
Gray Catbird
|
13
|
1
|
18
|
4
|
Brown Thrasher
|
4
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
Northern Mockingbird
|
-
|
-
|
1
|
-
|
Ovenbird
|
1
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
Northern Waterthrush
|
1
|
1
|
1
|
-
|
Common Yellowthroat
|
159
|
1
|
44
|
2
|
Hooded Warbler
|
1
|
-
|
1
|
-
|
American Redstart
|
4
|
1
|
2
|
-
|
Cape May Warbler
|
-
|
-
|
1
|
-
|
Northern Parula
|
2
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
Magnolia Warbler
|
2
|
-
|
1
|
-
|
Yellow Warbler
|
-
|
-
|
3
|
-
|
Chestnut-sided Warbler
|
1
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
| Black-throated Blue Warbler |
10
|
-
|
5
|
-
|
Palm Warbler (Western)
|
1
|
-
|
5
|
-
|
| Prairie Warbler |
3
|
-
|
3
|
-
|
Eastern Towhee
|
-
|
-
|
1
|
-
|
Northern Cardinal
|
-
|
2
|
1
|
-
|
| Indigo Bunting |
1
|
-
|
1
|
-
|
Painted Bunting
|
4
|
1
|
2
|
-
|
Baltimore Oriole
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
1
|
| Banding Stats | Captain Sam's | Little Bear | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|
| # Birds Banded |
255
|
128
|
383
|
| # of Recaptures |
18
|
9
|
27
|
| # of Species |
25
|
20
|
31
|
| Effort (net-hours) |
175.0
|
76.7
|
251.7
|
| Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours) |
156.0
|
178.7
|
162.9
|
| # 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 (CS)
