Captain Sam's:
Today was quit a slow day. We had a little bit of light rain that started during the morning but soon went away. With a total 23, only15 of them were newly banded birds. Our excitement for the day was our first of the season Hermit thrush. Not only was it a new bird for our site it was also a recapture! My first reaction was maybe we captured a Hermit Thrush from another banding station. After doing so research, I realized this bird was banded last year at CS on November 5th, 2019. It's really exciting to see birds return to an area during migration. Our second excitement, which I did not think would be to much was a Song Sparrow that was recaptured. This bird had a band number that I did not recognize and I knew it was an older band. Thinking that this bird might be from previous years at CS, I didn't dig to deep on its history. After I finally start to look up this bird I realized that this birds information was not in previous years data from CS. My next option was maybe at Little Bear? Long behold, this bird was banded at LB on October 26, 2017! Looking more into this bird, I also found that it has voided our nets for 3 years after being banded and was finally captured at CS!
Hermit Thrush (photo KA)
Little Bear:
The morning started off overcast and with a little light rain, and our first net run was full of promise. A couple Swamp Sparrows, an Eastern Phoebe, Black-and-white Warbler, and a few of the regular Catbirds and Yellowthroats made me think that we could have a relatively good capture rate for a few hours. Instead, it got quite windy as soon as the rain stopped, and it didn't take long for the sun to burn through the cloud cover. By late morning, it felt like another summer day out there, and we started closing up shortly after surpassing 80 degrees. While going around shutting nets, we had one last minute capture, our very own first-of season Hermit Thrush. Surely the first of many that we'll catch over our final few weeks of banding.
-Josh
| Species | Captain Sam's | Little Bear | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New | Recaps | New | Recaps | |
Eastern Phoebe | - | - | 1 | - |
House Wren | 1 | - | 2 | - |
Carolina Wren | - | 1 | - | - |
Hermit Thrush | - | 1 | 1 | - |
Gray Catbird | 1 | 3 | 6 | 3 |
Eastern Towhee | - | 1 | - | - |
Swamp Sparrow | - | - | 3 | - |
Song Sparrow | - | 1 | - | - |
Black-and-white Warbler | - | - | 1 | - |
Common Yellowthroat | 2 | - | 4 | - |
Palm Warbler (Western subspecies) | 1 | - | 2 | 1 |
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle subspecies) | 9 | - | 3 | - |
Northern Cardinal | - | 1 | - | - |
Painted Bunting | 1 | - | 2 | - |
| Today's Banding Stats | Captain Sam's | Little Bear | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|
| # Birds Banded | 15 | 25 | 40 |
| # of Recaptures | 8 | 4 | 12 |
| # of Species | 11 | 10 | 14 |
| Effort (net-hours) | 132 | 112.17 | 244.17 |
| Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours) | 17.4 | 25.6 | 21.3 |
| # of Nets | 30 | 23 | - |
| 2020 Fall Cumulative Banding Stats | Captain Sam's | Little Bear | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|
| # Birds Banded | 3,643 | 2,171 | 5,814 |
| # of Recaptures | 758 | 368 | 1,126 |
| # of Species | 68 | 67 | 81 |
| Effort (net-hours) | 8,604.5 | 5,705.8 | 14,310.3 |
| Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours) | 51.1 | 44.5 | 48.5 |
| # of Days | 70 | 59 | - |
Banding Staff
Kristin Attinger (CS)Dan Errichetti (CS)
Sarah Stewart (CS)
Josh Lefever (LB)
Vincent Weber (LB)
