Friday, October 8, 2021

Starting to Get Busy Again (but still mostly Catbirds)!

Captain Sam's:

Today Captain Sam's got their first of the season Eastern Phoebe. Unfortunately I didn't get a photo of this soft cutie. Overall it was a great day with 85 birds captured this morning. Out of those 85, 76 of those birds are newly banded birds. We are starting to finally catch fewer recaptured birds as well! I did manage to get a wonderful photo of this adult male Black-and-white Warbler! check him out below! Very stunning and handsome indeed!


-Kristin

Little Bear:

Little Bear's motif of purple-stained bird bags continued today, with Gray Catbirds making up over half (37) of our total number of captures (67). We were looking forward to having a busier day today, with the coastal storms that have plagued us all week somewhat clearing up last night. And while we did catch our highest number of birds since Sept 30th, species diversity was still fairly low for this time of year. We actually haven't caught any first of season species at Little Bear since our 110 bird day on the 30th, but we're keeping our fingers crossed for that to change this weekend. 

-Josh

  Species  Captain Sam'sLittle Bear
NewRecapsNewRecaps
Eastern Phoebe
1---
White-eyed Vireo
-12-
Tufted Titmouse
---1
House Wren
--3-
Carolina Wren
---1
Gray Catbird
44437-
Brown Thrasher
1-1-
Northern Mockingbird
1---
Veery
1---
Eastern Towhee
-1--
Black-and-white Warbler
2-1-
Common Yellowthroat
19112-
American Redstart
1---
Palm Warbler
--1-
Northern Cardinal
-1--
Indigo Bunting
1-11
Painted Bunting
3141

Today's Banding StatsCaptain Sam'sLittle BearTOTAL
# Birds Banded
76
63
139
# of Recaptures
9
4
13
# of Species
14
12
18
Effort (net-hours)
123
75.9
198.9
Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours)
69.1
88.3
76.4
# of Nets
30
23
-

2021 Fall Cumulative Banding Stats Captain Sam'sLittle BearTOTAL
# Birds Banded
2,282
1,440
3,722
# of Recaptures
365
195
560
# of Species
58
52
66
Effort (net-hours)
6,873.4
4,664.9
11,538.3
Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours)
38.5
35.0
37.1
# of Days5146-

Banding Staff

Aaron Given (CS)
Kristin Attinger (CS)
Kandace Glanville (CS)
Ben Stalheim (CS)
Nate Watkins (LB)
Josh Lefever (LB)