Slow days are still a treat to have

 Captain Sams: 

Things have still been pretty slow at Captain Sam's. We caught 12 birds total, beating yesterday's total by one. With it being more slow we got to spend more time ageing a Downy Woodpecker and measuring a Traill's Flycatcher. With more favorable winds in the next couple days, we'll hopefully get new species and a lot more birds soon.

Our non-bird highlight of the day was feeding a house fly to our new pet praying mantis (we are open to name suggestions!)

- Maia

Little Bear:

Today was still a slow day but we definitely beat yesterdays numbers! Bringing in with a total of 14 birds! Only 4 of them being recaptures. This is a surprise to me because usually on these slow days we catch the birds that have been banded. I cannot complain because every bird we capture is a lovely treasure to have. No new species have been added to our list but we'll see what these next few days gives us. Hanging around our station has been another Great Egret and a few other herons, so maybe we'll be lucky enough to catch another one!

-Kristin 

Species	Captain Sams		Little Bear
	New	Recaps	New	Recaps
Downy Woodpecker	1	-	-	-
Traill's Flycatcher	1	-	-	-
White-eyed Vireo	-	1	1	-
Carolina Wren	-	-	1	1
Northern Waterthrush	2	2	3	-
Ovenbird	-	2	-	-
Common Yellowthroat	-	-	-	1
Prairie Warbler	-	1	1	-
Northern Cardinal	-	1	-	1
Painted Bunting	1	-	4	1

Today's Banding Stats	Captain Sams	Little Bear	TOTAL
# Birds Banded	5	10	15
# of Recaptures	7	4	11
# of Species	8	7	10
Effort (net-hours)	129	80.1	209.1
Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours)	9.3	17.5	12.4
# of Nets	30	23	-

2022 Fall Cumulative Banding Stats	Captain Sams	Little Bear	TOTAL
# Birds Banded	377	271	648
# of Recaptures	144	82	221
# of Species	35	27	40
Effort (net-hours)	2977.17	1,273.25	4,103.4
Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours)	17.5	27.7	21.2
# of Days	21	14	-

Banding Staff

Aaron Given 

Kristin Attinger (LB)

Nate Watkins (CS)

Katie Serba (CS)
Brendan Wang (CS) 

Aiden Place (LB)

Maia Nguyen (CS)