Thursday, September 29, 2022

One the Eve of a Hurricane

 

Captain Sams: 

Both sites were unable to be opened today due to windy conditions. We also got the news that Hurricane Ian is headed towards coastal South Carolina, so we spent the morning packing up all the nets at Captain Sam's and Little Bear. Captain Sam's was especially birdy this morning with the wind forcing all the migrating birds towards the ground. While there we observed a Bobolink, Cape-May Warblers, Northern Parula, Yellow-throated warbler, and many other passerines!

Driving back from Captain Sam's (Katie's hat unfortunately flew off 😱)

We did attempt a sea-watch later in the afternoon to try and get some shearwaters, but we mostly observed "pouches" of pelicans and "scavengings" of Laughing Gulls. 

- Maia

Little Bear:

2022 Fall Cumulative Banding Stats Captain SamsLittle BearTOTAL
# Birds Banded
1745
1042
2787
# of Recaptures
310
232
542
# of Species
54
49
66
Effort (net-hours)
5811.72
2988.57
8800.29
Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours)
35.36
42.6
37.8
# of Days4233-

Banding Staff

Aaron Given 
Kristin Attinger 
Nate Watkins 
Katie Serba 
Brendan Wang 
Aidan Place 
Maia Nguyen