Captain Sams:
Captains Sams was a steamy humid day like most in August with a few things here and there to shake things up. We’ve had a Chuck-wills-widow hanging out on one of our net poles these last few days which has been a treat, sadly they were missing this morning. We had quite the beautiful sunrise this morning on the Kiawah river which everyone was able to enjoy while we were waiting for our feathered friends to find their way to our nets. As an added bonus for the day my friend Alayna got to join us at the station, she handled her first wild bird today! We were able to spend some time talking about molt limits, extracting, and just fun general bird talk!
As far as net runs go today we’ve continued the August trend of few birds but fun individuals. Today we saw nearly every plumage type for Prairie Warblers with an after-hatch year male showing up right at the end of the day. Now the grand capture for the day is our second Black-billed Cuckoo for the season! Last year when I was here I was fortunate enough to band the only one of the season so I was pretty astonished when Maia came back with our second one for August! I feel like this one will probably be our last but I sure would love to be proven wrong.
During our net runs today we were able to set up our NFC tower and get everything ready to go! So starting tomorrow we’ll be collecting flyover data for the station that we can hopefully share with you all!
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| Me examining the Black-billed Cuckoo with the Optivisors! |
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| A nice looking Yellow Warbler from today. |
- Nate
Little Bear:
We ended our day with a total of 31 birds with 9 of them being recaptures. Surprisingly we are still kicking it with catching a bunch of Northern Waterthrush and Painted Buntings. Each day the species count for the 2 are our top birds. I never would have thought to catch so many for our first week but I am not complaining because it is so much fun seeing them all! Little Bear finally caught its first Carolina Chickadee this morning. I'm hoping during these slow days ahead of us we caught something cool. There has been a few herons hanging around our station, so maybe one might find our nets.
-Kristin
| Species | Captain Sams | Little Bear | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New | Recaps | New | Recaps | |
Black-billed Cuckoo | 1 | - | - | - |
Downy Woodpecker | - | - | 1 | - |
White-eyed Vireo | - | - | - | 2 |
Red-eyed Vireo | - | - | 1 | - |
Carolina Chickadee | - | - | 1 | - |
Carolina Wren | - | 2 | - | 1 |
Northern Mockingbird | - | 1 | - | - |
Northern Waterthrush | 4 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
Black-and-white Warbler | 1 | - | - | - |
American Redstart | - | - | 2 | - |
Yellow Warbler | 2 | - | - | - |
Prairie Warbler | 3 | 1 | 1 | - |
Northern Cardinal | - | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Painted Bunting | 4 | - | 10 | 4 |
| Today's Banding Stats | Captain Sams | Little Bear | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|
| # Birds Banded | 15 | 22 | 37 |
| # of Recaptures | 6 | 9 | 15 |
| # of Species | 9 | 10 | 14 |
| Effort (net-hours) | 138 | 103.5 | 241.5 |
| Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours) | 15.2 | 30.0 | 21.5 |
| # of Nets | 30 | 23 | 53 |
| 2022 Fall Cumulative Banding Stats | Captain Sams | Little Bear | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|
| # Birds Banded | 240 | 154 | 394 |
| # of Recaptures | 98 | 35 | 133 |
| # of Species | 31 | 21 | 33 |
| Effort (net-hours) | 1,834.2 | 613.0 | 2,447.12 |
| Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours) | 18.4 | 30.8 | 21.5 |
| # of Days | 13 | 6 | - |
Banding Staff
Brendan Wang (CS)
