Nashville Has a Head-rash-ville!

Captain Sam's:
A morning rain storm and afternoon heat brought few birds to Captain Sam's today. We banded 20 new birds and processed 18 recaps of 11 species. Common Yellowthroats, our most commonly captured species in the last few months, are finally starting to slow down with only 3 banded today. We captured our second Nashville Warbler of the season, and you can see a touch of his rufous cap peeking though!

Hatch-year male Nashville Warbler

We also recaptured a Carolina Chickadee with what appeared to be an older band. After looking up its band number in our records we found that it was banded as a hatch year in 2016, making it three years old today! It had not been recaptured since it was banded, so we're glad it's still hanging around!

-Arcata

Little Bear:

You see the ocean warms up and evaporates water. This water then becomes atmospheric water molecules until it cools and condenses into clouds. These clouds eventually become bigger and bigger and when they become so big that they need to release some moisture, they rain. Sometimes that rain stays mainly in the plains, but occasionally falls on or around our banding sites and delay our start times. Delaying our start times means we catch less birds. Catching less birds makes Josh, Beth, and Dave sad. Sadness makes us cry and return water to the earth to be evaporated back into rain and start the whole process over. So we don't like rain here at Little Bear.

How about that for a blog post, eh? (http://archives.sundayobserver.lk)

In all reality, we had minimal numbers of birds, but it was a fun day of species nonetheless. We caught a beautiful male Cape May Warbler...

Photo by: Dave Sandahl

Photo by: Josh Lefever

...a hatch year cuckoo - of which we took this cool release video...

...and we got a couple of super cute White-eyed vireos

Look at this fuzz ball!!! (Photo by: Dave Sandahl)

Ta-ta for now my preciouses

- Dave

Species	Captain Sam's		Little Bear
	New	Recaps	New	Recaps
Yellow-billed Cuckoo	4	-	1	-
Downy Woodpecker	-	-	1	-
White-eyed Vireo	-	-	2	1
Red-eyed Vireo	4	-	2	-
Carolina Chickadee	-	1	-	-
House Wren	-	-	3	-
Gray Catbird	6	13	6	5
Brown Thrasher	-	1	1	-
Eastern Towhee	-	1	1	-
Yellow-breasted Chat	-	-	1	-
Nashville Warbler	1	-	-	-
Common Yellowthroat	3	-	4	-
American Redstart	1	1	-	-
Cape May Warbler	-	-	1	-
Northern Parula	-	-	1	-
Magnolia Warbler	-	-	1	-
Palm Warbler (Western)	1	-	6	-
Northern Cardinal	-	1	-	-
Painted Bunting	-	-	4	-

Today's Banding Stats	Captain Sam's	Little Bear	TOTAL
# Birds Banded	20	35	55
# of Recaptures	18	6	24
# of Species	11	15	19
Effort (net-hours)	140	74	214
Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours)	27.1	55.4	36.9
# of Nets	28	20	48

2019 Fall Cumulative Banding Stats	Captain Sam's	Little Bear	TOTAL
# Birds Banded	2639	1643	4282
# of Recaptures	543	227	770
# of Species	60	57	74
Effort (net-hours)	6,909.35	2820.9	9,730.25
Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours)	46.1	66.3	51.9
# of Days	54	43	-

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