Summer's Not Over Yet

 Captain Sams: 

We had another busy day today with 68 new birds and 4 recaptures. Some highlights included a male Prothonotary Warbler, a male Black-throated Blue Warbler, and our first of season Summer Tanagers! These Summer Tanagers were caught together in the same net and were both hatching year birds. This species is difficult to sex during this time of year, so we had to list them as unknown, but we did have some potential indicators that one was a male and the other was a female. The individual we suspect to be a male had a wing length 8mm longer than the other bird and had two orange upper tail coverts. The other bird that is most likely a female had the shorter wing and didn't have an orange in the upper tail coverts.

Hatching year Summer Tanagers

Comparison of upper tail coverts
 (Potential male with orange coverts on the right) 

-Katie 

Little Bear:

Today was definitely a tad bit slower than yesterday. We ended with a total of 50 birds and only 5 of them being recaptures. Our highlight of the day was during one of our net runs where we had 3 Baltimore Orioles in a net! We all got to band one, which was exciting for all of us! After a few net runs in, we manage to catch another 3 more in a different net! With a total of 6 Baltimore Orioles in one day! We captured one a few weeks back so that brings our total for LB up to 7 Orioles! I was pretty happy to see how unique their colors vary from each individuals.  Here is our first group of Orioles. Our second batch of orioles were a little to feisty to get a group photo. 

During our last net run we also had another treat too! An alligator decided to come pay us a visit. We safely got him moving on so that we can close our nets down. He was persistent but eventually gave way and headed back into the tidal pool nearby. Hopefully tomorrows rain holds off and good things will still be coming our way.

-Kristin 

Species	Captain Sams		Little Bear
	New	Recaps	New	Recaps
Trails Flycatcher	1	1	-	-
White-eyed Vireo	1	1	-	-
Red-eyed Vireo	5	1	4	-
Northern Mockingbird	-	-	1	-
Baltimore Oriole	-	-	6	-
Ovenbird	1	-	1	-
Northern  Waterthrush	4	1	11	1
Prothonotary Warbler	1	-	-	-
Common Yellowthroat	34	-	8	-
American Redstart	11	-	1	-
Black-throated Blue Warbler	1	-	-	-
Prairie Warbler	7	-	3	-
Northern Cardinal	-	-	-	-
Summer Tanager	2	-	-	-
Painted Bunting	-	-	9	3

Today's Banding Stats	Captain Sams	Little Bear	TOTAL
# Birds Banded	68	45	113
# of Recaptures	4	5	9
# of Species	11	10	15
Effort (net-hours)	157.5	112.7	270.2
Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours)	45.7	44.37	90.07
# of Nets	30	23	-

2022 Fall Cumulative Banding Stats	Captain Sams	Little Bear	TOTAL
# Birds Banded	528	376	904
# of Recaptures	151	92	243
# of Species	37	28	42
Effort (net-hours)	3292.17	1,488.45	4,628.4
Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours)	21.7	31.4	24.8
# of Days	23	16	-

Banding Staff

Aaron Given (CS)

Kristin Attinger (LB)

Nate Watkins (CS)

Katie Serba (CS)
Brendan Wang (LB) 

Aidan Place (CS)

Maia Nguyen (LB)