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 Captain Sam's: 

Today was also a bit slower over at Captain Sam's with a total of 23 birds with 5 being recaptures. However, we still had some really fun birds to look at and band. We had two stunning after hatch year male American Redstarts which are always a treat with their striking colors, an intensely yellow adult male Prothonotary Warbler, and our second Yellow-breasted Chat of the season. Some other notable species for the day were a Black-and-white Warbler and an Eastern Kingbird that had a well-hidden orange crown, indicating that it was an adult. When things were calm though, we were all able to either get some reading in or head down to the river to look for shorebirds. 

Hatch year Yellow-breasted Chat

After hatch year male American Redstart

-Katie 

Little Bear:

Today we finished out with a total of 32 birds and only 5 of them being recaptures. We added our first of the season Tufted Titmouse to our list. It was a slower day compared to yesterday but we are still catching birds. During our first net run, we ran into a nice alligator. He was chilling on our paths, but once he saw me, he starting to high-tail out of the banding station. He made his way to the tidal pool and was not seen again. I was glad it was not being lazy and wanted nothing to do with us or the birds. We also captured this nice looking adult male American Redstart. I am a huge fan of these bird, because they are always so cute and such a sweet bird in the hand. Never to feisty and always posing.

After hatch year male American Redstart

Alligator walking away

-Kristin

Species	Captain Sam's		Little Bear
	New	Recaps	New	Recaps
Eastern Kingbird	1	-	-	-
Red-eyed Vireo	1	-	1	-
Carolina Wren	-	3	-	2
Tufted Titmouse	-	-	1	-
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher	1	-	-	-
Northern Mockingbird	1	-	-	-
Yellow-breasted Chat	1	-	-	-
Northern Waterthrush	4	-	13	-
Black-and-white Warbler	1	-	-	-
American Redstart	4	-	1	-
Common Yellowthroat	1	-	-	-
Prothonotary Warbler	1	-	1	-
Prairie Warbler	1	1	-	-
Painted Bunting	1	1	10	3

Today's Banding Stats	Captain Sam's	Little Bear	TOTAL
# Birds Banded	18	27	45
# of Recaptures	5	5	10
# of Species	13	7	14
Effort (net-hours)	150	92	242
Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours)	15.3	34.8	22.7
# of Nets	30	23	53

2022 Fall Cumulative Banding Stats	Captain Sam's	Little Bear	TOTAL
# Birds Banded	214	117	331
# of Recaptures	86	20	106
# of Species	30	18	33
Effort (net-hours)	1528.2	411.7	1939.9
Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours)	19.6	33.3	22.5
# of Days	11	4	-

Banding Staff

Aaron Given (CS)

Kristin Attinger (LB)

Nate Watkins (CS)

Katie Serba (CS)
Brendan Wang (CS) 

Aidan Place (CS)

Maia Nguyen (LB)