Tuesday, November 1, 2022

Keep Your Eyes on the Sparrows

 Captain Sam's:

    Our morning at Captain Sam's was quite foggy which let our minds wander. We enjoyed some peace and quite among the Yellow-rumped Warbler chips flying over, the few and far between flight calls of American Pipits. I was quite surprised with our totals for today based on the warm temperatures and the higher levels of humidity. Of the fun catches of the day we had a few Eastern Towhees and a female Sharp-shinned Hawk! Funny enough the sharpie was in net 29 which was the same net I extracted our Coopers Hawk out of last week!

Hatch-year female Sharp-shinned Hawk


- Nate

Little Bear:

Today was a nice day. It was a slow day but it was nice to have some cloud covers during our time out at little bear. We ended with a total of 43 birds and only 6 of them being recaptures. We added little bears first of the season Blue-headed Vireo. This little guy was a cutie but did not want to be nice enough, the biting and yelling, which just allowed us to just release it to go back to being cute from a distance. We had our second White-throated Sparrow that was recaptured. I didn't recognize the band number, so with some digging around previous year banding data, I found out this bird was banded back on 11/2/2020 as a hatch year. So this bird is 2 years old! I'm glad that it decided to come back to little bear. I looked up the band number for last years (2021) and found that this bird did not show up. So, this cutie must have taken a different route or skipped past us last year. I had to take a photo of this bird, shown below, because it was so nice and well behaved! 


After seeing Brendan's photos yesterday out at the beach, I had to join them this morning. He saw a star fish and I have only seen ones that are no longer alive. So, as I enjoyed the nice morning, I finally saw my first live one that was not in an aquarium! Another treat that I captured today and is not pictured is a Black Racer. As we were walking out to the station this morning, I caught a glimpse of something sitting in a tree. I stopped and had to take a look and found a beautiful snake sleeping in the Wax Myrtle bushes.

-Kristin 



  Species  Captain SamsLittle Bear
NewRecapsNewRecaps
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
--1-
Sharp-shinned Hawk
1---
Eastern Phoebe
-1--
Blue-headed Vireo
--1-
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
114-
House Wren
-11-
Gray Catbird
4364
Hermit Thrush
1---
White-throated Sparrow
---1
Swamp Sparrow
-13-
Eastern Towhee
11--
Orange-crowned Warbler
1---
Common Yellowthroat
1-2-
American Redstart
1---
Palm Warbler (Western)
1---
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)
43118-
Northern Cardinal
---1
Painted Bunting1-1-


Today's Banding StatsCaptain SamsLittle BearTOTAL
# Birds Banded
56
37
93
# of Recaptures
9
6
15
# of Species
14
11
18
Effort (net-hours)
146.7
105.8
256.3
Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours)
44.3
40.6
42.1
# of Nets
30
23
53

2022 Fall Cumulative Banding Stats Captain SamsLittle BearTOTAL
# Birds Banded
4632
2,814
7446
# of Recaptures
1112
645
1768
# of Species
80
83
97
Effort (net-hours)
11175.07
5,782.55
16,804.55
Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours)
51.4
59.8
54.8
# of Days7465-

Banding Staff

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

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