CAPTAIN SAMS
The morning started out with me tracking our collared bobcat in the dark. She was found along the edge of the high marsh and uplands near net 20. Because I was alone this morning, I had to make the decision to not open many of the "River Nets" due to her presence. I opened up 19 of the 30 nets then checked to see if she had moved. She didn't. I was able to slowly and gently push her east past our furthest nets where she stayed the rest of the morning resting about 30-50 yards from net 15. This allowed me to open a few more of the inner "River Nets" but decided to keep the 5 nets closest to her closed for the day.
Around 8:30am my family joined me for a couple hours. Unfortunately, I didn't have a lot of birds to show them today with only had 6 new birds and 9 recaptures of 5 species.
The rain started around 11:45am which was a little earlier than expected. Thankfully, Aidan stay behind to help me after my wife, Mom, and Mother-in-law left earlier. We got a little wet closing down the nets in the rain but Aidan and I had fun doing it.
Today was likely the last day of banding for the 2020 fall migration banding season as tomorrow's wind speeds are predicted to be 28-32mph in early morning and only diminishing to 25mph by noon. It'll be hard for me to cancel the last day of the season but in wind speeds like that, even I won't bother making the trek out to the banding station.
-Aaron
| Species | Captain Sam's | Little Bear | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New | Recaps | New | Recaps | |
American Robin | 1 | - | ||
Gray Catbird | - | 2 | ||
Swamp Sparrow | - | 1 | ||
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) | 5 | 5 | ||
Northern Cardinal | - | 1 | ||
| Today's Banding Stats | Captain Sam's | Little Bear | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|
| # Birds Banded | 6 | - | 6 |
| # of Recaptures | 9 | - | 9 |
| # of Species | 5 | - | 5 |
| Effort (net-hours) | 101.3 | - | 101.3 |
| Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours) | 14.8 | - | 14.8 |
| # of Nets | 25 | - | - |
| 2020 Fall Cumulative Banding Stats | Captain Sam's | Little Bear | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|
| # Birds Banded | 4566 | 2633 | 7199 |
| # of Recaptures | 1166 | 508 | 1674 |
| # of Species | 80 | 71 | 92 |
| Effort (net-hours) | 13734.63 | 7836.82 | 21571.45 |
| Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours) | 41.7 | 40.1 | 41.1 |
| # of Days | 104 | 79 | - |
Banding Staff
