Saturday, August 26th

 Captain Sams:

Another warm and humid August day. We tied up with yesterday's with 12 birds with 8 recaptures today. We caught 2 new Blue-gray Gnatcatchers and a new after hatch-year Northern Waterthrush. We also had a carpal coverts molt limit Prairie Warbler too. For hatch year Prairie Warbler, they usually have a molt limit at A1 which means first-year birds stop molting at their first alula feather. But it is also possible that they stop at carpal covert. On this bird, the carpal covert is darker than the alula feathers. 

                                                     after hatch year Northern Waterthrush

-Wentao

Little Bear:

With a low of 7 total birds, there were 3 that were first of the season for Little Bear. A bright hatch-year Yellow Warbler, a calm and collected Ovenbird, and an undistinguishable Traill's Flycatcher. Add a sprinkle of 4 recaptured Carolina Wrens and you have a short day on the hot sand of the dunes.

Note:  All banding, marking, and sampling is being conducted under a federally authorized Bird Banding Permit issued by the U.S. Geological Survey’s BBL

Species	Captain Sams		Little Bear
	New	Recaps	New	Recaps
Traill's Flycatcher	-	-	1	-
White-eyed Vireo	-	1	-	-
Carolina Chickadee	-	1	-	-
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher	2	-	-	-
Carolina Wren	-	-	-	4
Ovenbird	-	-	1	-
Northern Waterthrush	1	-	-	-
Yellow Warbler	-	-	1	-
Prairie Warbler	1	-	-	-
Northern Cardinal	-	5	-	-
Painted Bunting	-	1	-	-

Today's Banding Stats	Captain Sams	Little Bear	TOTAL
# Birds Banded	4	3	7
# of Recaptures	8	4	12
# of Species	7	4	11
Effort (net-hours)	121	96.6	217.6
Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours)	9.9	7.2	8.7
# of Nets	32	23	55

2023 Fall Cumulative Banding Stats	Captain Sams	Little Bear	TOTAL
# Birds Banded	175	59	234
# of Recaptures	101	20	121
# of Species	24	14	38
Effort (net-hours)	1686	405.45	2091.45
Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours)	16.4	19.5	-
# of Days	12	4	-

Banding Staff

Aaron Given (CS)

Kristin Attinger (LB)

Brittany Holliker

Matt Hixson

Camille Blose (LB)

Wentao Yang (CS)

Natalie Miller (LB)