Thursday, November 7, 2019

It's Almost the Weekend

Captain Sams:
Today was a slow day, with a total of 22 birds, 15 were newly banded and 7 were recaptured. Our highlight of the day was catching our second Field Sparrow of the season! These little guys have a call that sounds like a ping-pong ball dropping. I am hoping this weekend shows some improvement and we get our 100th species this weekend! Our guess is either a Tree Swallow or American Goldfinch. Stay tuned and hopefully we post something this weekend! What bird do you think we might get for our 100th species?

-Kristin


Little Bear:

As has become the recent norm, birds were few and far between this morning. We caught 14 birds before closing down without much fanfare. The skies were heavily overcast, but we had one bright spot- an adult male Yellow Palm Warbler. As we've written about before, we are much more accustomed to the brown-bodied 'western' Palm Warbler, and getting a yellow 'eastern' individual is always a treat.



--Josh


  SpeciesCaptain Sam'sLittle Bear
NewRecapsNewRecaps
Eastern Phoebe
1
-
-
-
Carolina Chickadee
-
1
-
-
Carolina Wren
-
-
-
1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
2
-
1
-
Brown Thrasher
-
1
-
-
Gray Catbird
-
-
-
1
Field Sparrow
1
-
-
-
Song Sparrow
3
-
2
-
Swamp Sparrow
-
1
1
-
Orange-crowned Warbler
-
-
1
1
Common Yellowthroat
-
1
-
-
Palm Warbler (Yellow)
-
-
1
-
Palm Warbler (Western)
-
-
-
1
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)
7
1
2
-
Northern Cardinal
-
1
-
2
Painted Bunting
1---


Today's Banding StatsCaptain Sam'sLittle BearTOTAL
# Birds Banded
15
8
23
# of Recaptures
7
6
13
# of Species
11
9

Effort (net-hours)
154.0
96.3
250.3
Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours)
14.3
14.5
14.4
# of Nets
28
20
48



2019 Fall Cumulative Banding Stats Captain Sam'sLittle BearTOTAL
# Birds Banded
3,909
2,481
6,390
# of Recaptures
904
421
1,325
# of Species
83
76
99
Effort (net-hours)
9,906.3
4,758.1‬
14,664.4
Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours)
48.6
61.0
52.6
# of Days7464-

Banding Staff

Aaron Given (CS)
Arcata Leavitt (CS)
Dan Errichetti (CS)
Dave Sandahl (LB) 
Josh Lefever (LB)
Kristin Attinger (CS)
Sarah Stewart (CS)
Matt Danihel (CS)