Baby Baby Buntings

Captain Sam's

It was my second day in South Carolina and boy is it muggy. We had a fun day, but rather slow again with 8 new birds banded and 5 recaps of 6 species. I really enjoyed seeing the differences in the molts and ages of the painted buntings. We had a couple of hatch-year birds who are just beginning to explore on their own and molt into their first plumage. They look drastically different than a brilliant, adult (after-second year) male. The bird below is one of those drab, awkward looking young.

-Joel

Painted Bunting (hatch-year, unknown sex)

Little Bear

We had a very slow morning out at Little Bear with 4 new birds and 1 recapture of only 2 species, which has to be one of the slowest if not the slowest day ever at the site. Unfortunately, the heat is causing us to shut down around 9:00 AM every morning, but there is not much bird activity after that time anyway. This pattern looks to continue for awhile but hopefully we get a wind shift and some more migrants. It has definitely been a slower start to the season compared to previous seasons.

-Michael

Species	Captain Sam's		Little Bear
	New	Recaps	New	Recaps
Downy Woodpecker	1	-	-	-
Carolina Wren	-	1	-	-
Brown Thrasher	-	1	-	-
Common Yellowthroat	1	-	-	-
Prairie Warbler	-	-	1	-
Northern Cardinal	1	1	-	-
Painted Bunting	5	2	3	1

Today's Banding Stats	Captain Sam's	Little Bear	TOTAL
# Birds Banded	8	4	12
# of Recaptures	5	1	6
# of Species	6	2	7
Effort (net-hours)	105	56	161
Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours)	12.4	8.9	11.2
# of Nets	28	20	48

2018 Fall Cumulative Banding Stats	Captain Sam's	Little Bear	TOTAL
# Birds Banded	308	124	432
# of Recaptures	103	33	136
# of Species	29	16	30
Effort (net-hours)	2372.1	686.85	3058.95
Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours)	17.3	22.9	18.6
# of Days	19	11	-

Banding Staff
Aaron Given (CS)
Michael Gamble (LB)
Meredith Heather (LB)
Danaé Mouton (LB)
Kristin Attinger (CS)
Joanne Hamilton (CS)
Joel Throckmorton (CS)