Wednesday, October 14, 2020

Birds, Birds, Birds

 Captain Sam's:

Today was a great day! We were busy all day with a total of 183 birds. Out of those 183 birds, only 8 of them were recaptures. The most interesting thing about our recaptured birds today was a Gray Catbird that was banded in 2016 as a hatch year! Meaning this bird has survived the great outdoors for 4 years! Bet they have a story to tell if it could talk. Our new bird of the season is a Rose-breasted Grosbeak. We managed to capture 2 of them today! 

Photo by Aaron: Rose-breasted Grosbeak

It is great to see birds with a lot of fat today. This means that they are ready to move and continue their great trip to the south! Even though these next few days will most likely be slow, I am still looking for this weekend as we see another cold front coming through. 


Little Bear:

As a bird bander, its easy to get excited about a shift in wind direction. That's super nerdy, but with the wind blowing from the north last night for the first time in a few days, we were optimistic for a busier day than yesterday. While opening the station before sunrise, the sky was filled with the flight calls of migrating songbirds, more reason for optimism. Our first couple net checks were quite busy, but once the sun started warming things up, the bird activity went down accordingly. We ended with an enjoyable 112 captures of 20 different species, but are still waiting for a truly big (200+ birds) day at Little Bear. While we had some cool birds like Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, and our first Yellow-rumped Warbler of the season, the birds came through too fast this morning to manage any good pictures to share. Hopefully something cool finds it way into our nets over the next couple days, as we patiently wait for that weekend cold front!

-Josh

  Species  Captain Sam'sLittle Bear
NewRecapsNewRecaps
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
1-1-
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
--1-
Eastern Wood-Pewee
1---
Eastern Phoebe
7-2-
White-eyed Vireo
5-1-
Red-eyed Vireo
3---
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
--1-
House Wren
3-2-
Marsh Wren
--1-
Gray Catbird
466454
Brown Thrasher
1---
Gray-cheeked Thrush
3-1-
Swainson's Thrush
9---
Eastern Towhee
-1--
Ovenbird
1---
Northern Waterthrush
2-2-
Common Yellowthroat
47-282
American Redstart
8-1-
Cape May Warbler
2-1-
Northern Parula
--1-
Magnolia Warbler
3---
Yellow Warbler
1---
Black-throated Blue Warbler
14-4-
'Western' Palm Warbler
8-9-
'Myrtle' Yellow-rumped Warbler
1-1-
Northern Cardinal
-11-
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
2---
Indigo Bunting
5-1-
Painted Bunting
2-1-


Today's Banding StatsCaptain Sam'sLittle BearTOTAL
# Birds Banded
175
106
281
# of Recaptures
8
6
14
# of Species
25
20
29
Effort (net-hours)
155
105.4
260.4
Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours)
118.1
106.3
113.3
# of Nets
30
23
-



2020 Fall Cumulative Banding Stats Captain Sam'sLittle BearTOTAL
# Birds Banded
3,380
1,898
5,278
# of Recaptures
638
268
906
# of Species
62
65
78
Effort (net-hours)
7,382.76
4,563.7
11,946.46
Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours)
54.4
47.5
51.7
# of Days5948-

 

Banding Staff

Aaron Given (CS)
Sarah Mueller (CS)
Vincent Weber (CS)
Kristin Attinger (CS)
Josh Lefever (LB)
Sarah Stewart (LB)
Dan Errichetti (LB)


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