A Rush of Thrushes

Captain Sam's:

It was another gloomy, windy morning, but we still had a good first few net runs. Some of our highlights were a Gray-cheeked Thrush, Blackpoll Warbler, and a Yellow Palm Warbler, all of which we don't get too often. The Gray-cheeked Thrush and Blackpoll Warbler both had a fat of 4 and 5, respectively, so with all that stored fat they are ready to continue their migrations and that's probably the last we'll see of them. Unfortunately, the swallows weren't around today even though the weather was pretty good for them. If this weather continues, hopefully the swallows will come back and we'll be able to band more of them. 

Palm Warbler (Yellow)

Hatching year Blackpoll Warbler

-Katie 

Little Bear:

A dreary day indeed! We ended up fighting some mist and wind today at little bear. It was cool seeing some birds flying low but it seems like they were seeing our nets and avoiding them at all cost. We ended up with 17 birds. Our highlighted species for the day was capturing a Hermit Thrush. This cutie was not very photogenic but it was nice to finally catch one after our last one about a month ago. I'm hoping this storm that brewing on the coast will bring in some good birds tomorrow! There were, again, some herons starting to come into the station. We are starting to build up our water levels again and I'm hoping before the season ends, that we capture another heron to end with a great species list this year! There are still a great amount of species that we can still catch before we are done, including American Robin, American Goldfinch and even our Screech Owl, plus more! We are at a total of 93 species so far for this season and I am hoping to exceed our species list year!

There might be some good winds the next few days in hopes that the wind does not change.

-Kristin  

Species	Captain Sams		Little Bear
	New	Recaps	New	Recaps
Yellow-billed Cuckoo	-	-	-	1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet	-	1	-	-
Gray Catbird	7	2	-	-
Gray-cheeked Thrush	1	-	-	-
Hermit Thrush	3	1	1	-
Song Sparrow	1	1	-	-
Swamp Sparrow	1	-	-	-
Common Yellowthroat	-	1	5	-
American Redstart	-	1	-	-
Blackpoll Warbler	1	-	-	-
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)	14	2	5	1
Palm Warbler (Western)	1	-	2	-
Palm Warbler (Yellow)	1	-	-	-
Orange-crowned Warbler	-	-	-	1
Painted Bunting	-	1	1	-

Today's Banding Stats	Captain Sams	Little Bear	TOTAL
# Birds Banded	30	14	44
# of Recaptures	10	3	13
# of Species	13	7	15
Effort (net-hours)	144	51.8	195.8
Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours)	27.8	32.8	60.6
# of Nets	30	23	-

2022 Fall Cumulative Banding Stats	Captain Sams	Little Bear	TOTAL
# Birds Banded	4547	2,746	7293
# of Recaptures	1089	627	1716
# of Species	82	80	97
Effort (net-hours)	10878.4	5,582.45	16,460.85
Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours)	51.8	60.4	54.7
# of Days	72	63	-

Banding Staff

Aaron Given (CS)

Kristin Attinger (LB)

Nate Watkins 

Katie Serba (CS)
Brendan Wang (LB) 

Aidan Place (CS)

Maia Nguyen (CS)