No Surprises

 Captain Sam's:

Today was quite a slow day. It was definitely cooler today with the nice overcast. I got to see 2 White Pelicans fly up the river today, which is a first for me this season! I am hoping something cool will show up on these up coming slow days!

Here is a beautiful sunrise that we had at Captain Sam's today!

-Kristin

 

Little Bear:

To bang on the same old drum, It was another slow day. We averaged four to five captures per run, but at the end of the day we still only processed 32 birds covering 10 species. We were glad to have overcast conditions for the majority of the morning, but the wind steadily increased over the course of the session causing us to close early. We almost made it to noon though.

A very confused Northern Mockingbird (Photo VW)

The bird to highlight from today was a hatch-year Northern Mockingbird. This bird was very calm from the moment I grabbed it out of the net to when we were processing. It even posed for a few photos. Most mockingbirds are noisy while they are in-hand.

-Vincent

Species	Captain Sam's		Little Bear
	New	Recaps	New	Recaps
House Wren	1	1	2	-
Carolina Wren	-	2	-	1
Carolina Chickadee	-	1		-
Gray Catbird	2	2	7	-
Northern Mockingbird	-	-	1	-
Brown Thrasher	1	1	-	-
Common Yellowthroat	2	1	2	2
Northern Parula	1	-	-	-
Palm Warbler (Western)	1	-	3	-
Yellow-Rumped Warbler (Myrtle)	-	-	4	-
Prairie Warbler	-	-	-	1
Northern Cardinal	-	2	-	1
Indigo Bunting	1	-	-	-
Painted Bunting	-	-	3	-

Today's Banding Stats	Captain Sam's	Little Bear	TOTAL
# Birds Banded	9	22
# of Recaptures	10	22
# of Species	10	10
Effort (net-hours)	132	120.6
Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours)	14.4	18.2
# of Nets	30	23	-

2020 Fall Cumulative Banding Stats	Captain Sam's	Little Bear	TOTAL
# Birds Banded	3590	2097	5687
# of Recaptures	729	337	1066
# of Species	67	66	80
Effort (net-hours)	8,248.7	5389.90	13,638.6
Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours)	52.4	45.2	49.5
# of Days	67	56	-

 

Banding Staff

Aaron Given (CS)
Vincent Weber (LB)
Kristin Attinger (CS)

Sarah Stewart (CS)
Josh Lefever (LB)