Tuesday, September 13, 2022

First Catbird! (The First of Many)

 Captain Sam's: 

Today was a good day all around with a nice diversity of birds early on. The highlights of our first net round was an impressive 3 Black-throated Blue Warblers. On the next two net rounds we caught our first of season (for Captain Sam's) Western Palm Warbler and a Yellow-breasted Chat. However, the day's highlight for me personally came as a first of season Grey Catbird. These dapper mimids will become one of the most common birds banded in the coming weeks so it was great to study its molt pattern closely in advance.

Grey Catbird

There was also a Marsh Rabbit hanging around today, the first of these unique lagomorphs I've seen so far!

- Aidan

Little Bear:

Today was a great start to some migrant birds! We got a total of 52 birds with only 4 of them being recaptures. Our first of the season Magnolia Warbler was such a treat to have and our first for little bear Hooded Warbler was also a nice icing to the cake to say! I definitely hoped for more new birds but that will be determined as the week goes on with some great winds that are coming our way. 

We luckily got another Green Heron for Little Bear. This makes our season total up to 4! Its crazy to see that many out there in our net lanes. There are still a few of them that are still hanging around, whether they are banded or not. 

Another great thing we captured in our nets was a bycatch of a Red Bat. We see them flying around every morning but don't usually catch them. The last one that was captured in our nets was in 2018. With extra caution, we safely removed it from the net and released it. It was probably happy to be free. 

-Kristin


  Species  Captain Sam'sLittle Bear
NewRecapsNewRecaps
Green Heron
--1-
Trails Flycatcher
1-1-
White-eyed Vireo
11--
Red-eyed Vireo
4-1-
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1---
Veery
--1-
Gray Catbird
1---
Yellow-breasted Chat
1---
Ovenbird
2-1-
Northern Waterthrush
112121
Common Yellowthroat
10-11-
Hooded Warbler
--1-
American Redstart
218-
Cape May Warbler
2---
Magnolia Warbler
--1-
Yellow Warbler
2-1-
Black-throated Blue Warbler
3-3-
Palm Warbler (western subspecies)
2-1-
Prairie Warbler
211-
Northern Cardinal
11--
Painted Bunting
3-33



Today's Banding StatsCaptain Sam'sLittle BearTOTAL
# Birds Banded
49
47
96
# of Recaptures
6
4
10
# of Species
17
15
21
Effort (net-hours)
144
95.9
239.9
Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours)
37.5
53.2
44.6
# of Nets
30
23
-

2022 Fall Cumulative Banding Stats Captain Sam'sLittle BearTOTAL
# Birds Banded
640
471
1,111
# of Recaptures
184
113
297
# of Species
39
38
48
Effort (net-hours)
3,848.67
1,824.25
5672.92
Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours)
22.3
32.0
24.8
# of Days2720-

Banding Staff

Aaron Given (CS)
Kristin Attinger (LB)
Nate Watkins (CS)
Katie Serba 
Brendan Wang (LB) 
Aidan Place (CS)
Maia Nguyen (CS)

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