Mondays are for the Banders 10/28/2019

Captain Sam's:

Black-throated Green, Hatch Year Male (Photo: Dave Sandahl)

We had a great day at Captain Sam's today! We processed a total of 71 birds, 54 of which were new captures. I was excited to stumble on my first mini flock of Yellow-rumped Warblers- 15 in one net. We haven't gotten our big push of "Butter Butts" yet this season, so it was a nice preview of what is to come. We banded our second Bay-breasted Warbler of the season, as well as our second Blue-headed Vireo of the season, and our second Black-throated Green of the season! Last years winds only carried one Black-throated Green to the station, so we feel twice as lucky this year!

Black-throated Green (Photo: Dave Sandahl)

Not to mention, we made a new friend:

Corn Snake (Photo: Dave Sandahl)

Aaron found this corn snake on the trail between nets 1 and 20. Naturally, as wildlife biologists, we all had to examine him. Hopefully his musky scent will wash out of our clothes soon!


-Beth


Little Bear:
Things picked up a bit today with 23 new birds banded and 12 recaps of 13 species. The highlight was a first-of-season Lincoln's Sparrow. In 2015 both Captain Sam's and Little Bear caught one each, and one from each site in 2018, making the hatch year below the fifth ever Lincoln's Sparrow caught at KIBS!

-Arcata

Species	Captain Sam's		Little Bear
	New	Recaps	New	Recaps
Yellow-billed Cuckoo	2	-	-	-
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker	1	-	-	-
Blue-headed Vireo	1	-	-	-
Red-eyed Vireo	1	-	-	-
Carolina Wren	-	1	1	1
Swainson's Thrush	1	-	-	-
Hermit Thrush	6	-	4	-
Gray Catbird	4	10	2	6
Eastern Towhee	-	1	-	-
Song Sparrow	1	-	-	1
Lincoln's Sparrow	-	-	1	-
Swamp Sparrow	2	1	2	-
Yellow-breasted Chat	-	1	-	-
Northern Waterthrush	-	-	-	1
Common Yellowthroat	1	1	5	2
American Redstart	2	-	-	-
Cape May Warbler	-	-	1	-
Bay-breasted Warbler	1	-	-	-
Black-throated Blue Warbler	5	-	2	-
Palm Warbler (Western)	1	-	1	2
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)	22	1	3	-
Black-throated Green Warbler	1	-	-	-
Northern Cardinal	1	-	-	-
Painted Bunting	1	-	1	-

Today's Banding Stats	Captain Sam's	Little Bear	TOTAL
# Birds Banded	54	23	77
# of Recaptures	16	12	28
# of Species	21	13	24
Effort (net-hours)	168	102	270
Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours)	41.7	34.3	39.26
# of Nets	28	20	48

2019 Fall Cumulative Banding Stats	Captain Sam's	Little Bear	TOTAL
# Birds Banded	3,487	2,292	5,779
# of Recaptures	811	354	1,165
# of Species	79	71	94
Effort (net-hours)	8,609	3,919.55	12,528.55
Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours)	49.9	67.5	55.4
# of Days	66	55	-

Banding Staff
Aaron Given (CS)
Dave Sandahl (CS)
Bethany Darby (CS)
Josh Lefever (LB)
Arcata Leavitt (LB)
Kristin Attinger (LB)