FOS Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

It was a nice, breezy morning out at Captain Sam's, making it feel a little cooler. We captured 19 new birds and 2 recaptures of 9 species. We continue to catch several northern mockingbirds per day, so they must have had a good breeding season. The highlight of the morning was a Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, which we do not catch many of during the fall since they like to forage for insects in the treetops above our nets. Also, we were able to make it out to the Little Bear banding site after banding and put the rest of the nets up. We plan to start banding out there on Wednesday!

Michael

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (hatch-year, unknown sex)

Species	Captain Sam's		Little Bear
	New	Recaps	New	Recaps
Great Crested Flycatcher	1	1	-	-
Carolina Chickadee	1	-	-	-
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher	1	-	-	-
Northern Mockingbird	3	-	-	-
Eastern Towhee	1	-	-	-
Northern Waterthrush	4	-	-	-
American Redstart	1	-	-	-
Northern Cardinal	1	1	-	-
Painted Bunting	6	-	-	-

Banding Stats	Captain Sam's	Little Bear	TOTAL
# Birds Banded	19	-	19
# of Recaptures	2	-	2
# of Species	9	-	9
Effort (net-hours)	109.2	-	109.2
Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours)	19.2	-	19.2
# of Nets	28	-	28

Banding Staff

Aaron Given (CS)

Michael Gamble (CS)

Kristen Attinger (CS)

Meredith Heather (CS)

Danaé Mouton (CS)