Worm-eating Warbler (first of the season and hopefully not the last)

 North winds brought in some cooler temperatures (72℉) and lower humidity making for a comfortable morning at the banding station.  Unfortunately, in the south in August that comfort doesn't last very long and by 10:30 am, it heated up and became steamy again.  

We did not get the push of migrants that I was hoping for but we did band many more warblers today and by the end of the morning we had banded 45 new birds with 13 recaptures of 12 different species.  We did get the first-of-the-season American Redstart with 5 banded today.  I almost predicted in yesterday's blog that we would get our first redstarts today.  Instead I decided to be wrong and predict that  we wouldn't recapture the Red-eyed Vireo - which we did.    

The highlight of the day was a Worm-eating Warbler.  Last year we only banded one Worm-eating Warbler and that was out a the Little Bear banding site.  

-Aaron

Worm-eating Warbler (hatch-year, sex unknown)

Species	Captain Sam's		Little Bear
	New	Recaps	New	Recaps
Red-eyed Vireo	-	1	-	-
Carolina Chickadee	-	1	-	-
Carolina Wren	3	3	-	-
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher	1	-	-	-
Brown Thrasher	1	-	-	-
Worm-eating Warbler	1	-	-	-
Northern Waterthrush	8	-	-	-
American Redstart	5	-	-	-
Yellow Warbler	1	-	-	-
Prairie Warbler	9	-	-	-
Northern Cardinal	3	1	-	-
Painted Bunting	13	7	-	-

Today's Banding Stats	Captain Sam's	Little Bear	TOTAL
# Birds Banded	45	-	-
# of Recaptures	13	-	-
# of Species	12	-	-
Effort (net-hours)	145.0	-	-
Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours)	40.0	-	-
# of Nets	29	-	-

2020 Fall Cumulative Banding Stats	Captain Sam's	Little Bear	TOTAL
# Birds Banded	117	-	-
# of Recaptures	25	-	-
# of Species	21	-	-
Effort (net-hours)	353.85	-	-
Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours)	40.1	-	-
# of Days	3	-	-

Banding Staff
Aaron Given (CS) 

Chris Snook (CS)