Where are the birds hiding?

 Captain Sams: 

It was a hot and slow day this morning at Captain Sams. In total we caught 5 birds, 4 of which were recaptures. However, we kept ourselves busy repairing nets in preparation for busier days in the future.

Hatch year White-eyed Vireo

Little Bear:

Today was a slow day indeed. We had a total of 5 birds for the time that we had our nets open. We captured 3 new birds and 2 recaptures. The only thing we kept hoping for was catching the Chucks-will-widow or the Eastern whip-poor-will that has been flying around the station the past few days. I hope that we can get some results, meaning we might be able to find this individual(s) in our nets soon! We went out to enjoy the sunrise before we started our banding and were in awe at the amount of snowy and great egrets that came in. I'm hoping this storm that we might be getting in the next few days, bring in a few new species and numbers.

-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 Sams		Little Bear
	New	Recaps	New	Recaps
White-eyed Vireo	-	1	-	-
Carolina Wren	-	1	-	1
Northern Mockingbird	1	-	-	-
Northern Cardinal	-	1	1	1
Painted Bunting	-	1	2	-

Today's Banding Stats	Captain Sams	Little Bear	TOTAL
# Birds Banded	1	3	4
# of Recaptures	4	2	6
# of Species	5	3	5
Effort (net-hours)	153.6	82.8	236.4
Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours)	3.3	6.0	4.2
# of Nets	32	23	55

2023 Fall Cumulative Banding Stats	Captain Sams	Little Bear	TOTAL
# Birds Banded	181	71	252
# of Recaptures	108	27	135
# of Species	24	15	39
Effort (net-hours)	1974	571.05	2545.05
Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours)	14.6	17.2	31.8
# of Days	14	6	-

Banding Staff

Aaron Given (CS)

Kristin Attinger (LB)

Brittany Holliker (CS)

Matt Hixson (LB)

Camille Blose (CS)

Wentao Yang (LB)

Natalie Miller (CS)