Thrashy Thursday

 Captain Sams:

Today's weather was the best so far in the season. The north-northeast wind keeps the humidity low, and we certainly felt it as soon as we got out of the car. After opening the nets, we also heard a little more activities than before. We're all excited to see what we would get today. And here it is: in our first net run at 7 this morning, Matt and I split up at the inside river, and he instantly flushed a bird into net 10. It was an Ovenbird! What a great start to the day. 

Overall, we had a total of 26 birds with 18 newly banded and 8 recaptures. Our highlight certainly belongs to the Ovenbird, and we also caught our 2nd Worm-eating Warbler for Captain Sams this year. Interestingly, we caught the Swainson's Warbler again today. This is the fourth day in a row we've caught this bird. And our data shows that it is gaining a little weight every day. It was 14.4 grams four days ago, and now it is 15.4!  

after hatch year Ovenbird

photo by Matt

hatch year Worm-eating Warbler

photo by Matt

- Wentao 

Little Bear:

Today was a lot better than yesterday. We up our totals to 29 birds with 25 newly banded birds and 4 recaptures. Our highlight for the day was catching our FOS Brown Thrasher and White-eyed Vireo. Our most birds captured today was the Carolina Wren. We had a total of 11 Carolina Wrens during our first run! It was pretty impressive to catch so many. We heard a few other species that have been hanging out and hope tomorrow will be the day that we catch a new bird. We will only hope and see.

Hatch Year Brown Thrasher 
Photo by Natalie

-Kristin

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 Sam's		Little Bear
	New	Recaps	New	Recaps
White-eyed Vireo	-	1	1	-
Carolina Wren	1	-	-	-
Carolina Chickadee	1	-	9	3
Brown Thrasher	-	-	1	-
Ovenbird	1	-	-	-
Worm-eating Warbler	1	-	-	-
Northern Waterthrush	5	-	4	-
Swainson's Warbler	-	1	-	-
American Redstart	4	-	1	-
Common Yellowthroat	-	-	1	-
Yellow Warbler	1	-	-	-
Prairie Warbler	2	-	3	-
Northern Cardinal	-	4	3	1
Painted Bunting	2	2	2	-

Today's Banding Stats	Captain Sam's	Little Bear	TOTAL
# Birds Banded	18	25	43
# of Recaptures	8	4	12
# of Species	12	9	23
Effort (net-hours)	169.8	97.75	267.55
Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours)	15.3	29.7	46
# of Nets	32	23	55

2023 Fall Cumulative Banding Stats	Captain Sam's	Little Bear	TOTAL
# Birds Banded	165	40	205
# of Recaptures	87	9	96
# of Species	24	10	34
Effort (net-hours)	1405	198.45	1603.45
Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours)	17.9	24.7	42.6
# of Days	10	2	-

Banding Staff

Aaron Given (CS)

Kristin Attinger (LB)

Brittany Holliker (LB)

Matt Hixson (CS)

Camille Blose (CS)

Wentao Yang (CS)

Natalie Miller (LB)