Saturday, September 17, 2022

Familiar Faces

Captain Sams: 

Numbers were pretty similar to yesterday, with 56 captures, 15 of them being recaptures. One interesting recapture was a White-eyed Vireo that was initially caught as an after-hatch-year bird in 2021. Since then its been caught 6 more times, a regular visitor!

Right above the banding station, we also had a neat observation. An Osprey paid us a visit with mullet for brunch and chose the pine above the banding station as its perch. 

Osprey showing off its catch above our banding table (photo courtesy of Brendan)

-Maia


Little Bear:

Today I was expecting it to be as slow as yesterday.  With the higher winds we had today I was only thinking some of our nets would catch some birds. During our first run we managed to get 21 birds! We ended the day with a tot of 43 birds. Our highlight of the day was recapturing an Eastern Towhee that was banded on 8/28 and again today. When first Banded this cuties didn't have any color whatsoever and now as a few weeks go by it is starting to show that nice orange feathers on the flanks (sides). I'm hoping tomorrow is just as great but having any numbers of birds is still a great day in my books. 


In this image above, the left side is when we first captured the towhee and the second photo was from today. Look how well this young teenager as bloomed into an almost adult stage!

-Kristin 

  Species  Captain SamsLittle Bear
NewRecapsNewRecaps
Downy Woodpecker
-1--
Trails Flycatcher
1---
White-eyed Vireo
1--1
Red-eyed Vireo
----
Gray Catbird
----
Eastern Towhee
---1
Ovenbird
1---
Northern Waterthrush
9323
Black-and-white Warbler
---1
Common Yellowthroat
1627-
American Redstart
2---
Yellow Warbler
1-8-
Black-throated Blue Warbler
1---
Palm Warbler (wester)
1-1-
Prairie Warbler
---1
Northern Cardinal
---1
Painted Bunting
1439


Today's Banding StatsCaptain SamsLittle BearTOTAL
# Birds Banded
41
26
68
# of Recaptures
15
17
20
# of Species
15
10
13
Effort (net-hours)
129
92
207.2
Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours)
43.4
46.7
44.8
# of Nets
30
23
-

2022 Fall Cumulative Banding Stats Captain SamsLittle BearTOTAL
# Birds Banded
913
651
1564
# of Recaptures
225
160
385
# of Species
40
40
48
Effort (net-hours)
4319.67
2,210.05
6,529.72
Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours)
26.7
36.7
30.1
# of Days3124-

Banding Staff

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

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