POTUS inadvertently gives us a half day!

 Captain Sam's: 

We’re easing into the first week of banding with some fun species and good numbers of recaptured today. Later in the season this can occasionally get tedious but during the early season this allows us to practice aging birds with the knowledge from previous days to check ourselves! A great catch for the day was a young (hatching-year) Blue-gray Gnatcatcher. Despite them being quite common we didn't catch all too many last fall so it's great to see one so early. We unfortunately had to cut our banding day a little short due to POTUS coming through leaving the island. I’m very much looking forward to blogging for the station this year and plan on continuing my trend from last year of writing haikus!

Quite the handsome looking male Prairie Warbler.

After hatch-year male Prairie Warbler wing. Note how clean and gorgeous all the feathers are!

 

Sitting in the dark

Murmurs of distant Marsh Wrens

It’s good to be back

 

- Nate

Species	Captain Sam's		Little Bear
	New	Recaps	New	Recaps
Downy Woodpecker	1	-	-	-
Great Crested Flycatcher	-	1	-	-
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher	1	-	-	-
Carolina Wren	-	3	-	-
Brown Thrasher	-	1	-	-
Northern Mockingbird	-	1	-	-
Prairie Warbler	4	-	-	-
Northern Cardinal	3	2	-	-
Painted Bunting	2	4	-	-

Today's Banding Stats	Captain Sam's	Little Bear	TOTAL
# Birds Banded	11	-	-
# of Recaptures	12	-	-
# of Species	9	-	-
Effort (net-hours)	111	-	-
Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours)	20.7	-	-
# of Nets	30	21	51

2022 Fall Cumulative Banding Stats	Captain Sam's	Little Bear	TOTAL
# Birds Banded	59	-	59
# of Recaptures	18	-	18
# of Species	13	-	13
Effort (net-hours)	255	-	255
Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours)	30.2	-	30.2
# of Days	2	-	2

Banding Staff

Aaron Given (CS)

Kristin Attinger (CS)

Nate Watkins (CS)

Katie Serba (CS)
Brendan Wang (CS) 

Aidan Place 

Maia Nguyen

Nancy Raginski (CS)

Michael Gamble (CS)