First Big Day for Both Stations!

 Captain Sams:

Ideal conditions the night before brought us a wave of new arrivals.  The first net run yielded 118 birds, requiring us to take turns making net runs and all of us working double time in order to efficiently process all of those birds while continuing to catch additional ones. In the end, we had a total of 243 birds! Besides the 118 Common Yellowthroats, we received a great variety of warblers and thrushes, along with Flycatchers, Catbirds, and a single Summer Tanager. There was a couple first of the season species, which were a Black-throated Green Warbler and a Cape May Warbler. The techs were thrown into deep waters (metaphorically) and the outcome was successful and rewarding. 

AHY Male Cape May Warbler

HY Black-throated Green Warbler

-Camille

Little Bear:

Today was a great day! We made our record of birds banded this season with a total of 118 birds! I have been waiting for this day to come and was extremely excited for it! Out of the 118 birds only 6 of them were recaptures. Our highlights for the was getting Natalie her first banded Baltimore Oriole and also adding 2 new first of the season for us! We added a Marsh Wren and a House Wren. It was fun to communicate with each other, as I radio over to everyone about catching a new species. Natalie replied back that she too indeed had a new species as well. We hinted to each other that we both captured wrens. I was very curious as to if we both had the same bird but atlas we did not and yet both were new! 

Here are a few of the birds captured today!

House Wren

Marsh Wren

After hatch year male American Redstart

-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
Downy Woodpecker	-	1	-	-
Least Flycatcher	1	-	-	-
Eastern Kingbird	1	-	-	-
White-eyed Vireo	5	1	5	1
Red-eyed Vireo	16	1	7	-
House Wren	-	-	1	-
Marsh Wren	-	-	1	-
Carolina Wren	-	1	-	2
Gray Catbird	4	-	1	-
Northern Mockingbird	-	1	-	-
Veery	10	-	2	-
Swainson's Thrush	4	-	-	-
Wood Thrush	1	-	-	-
Eastern Towhee	-	-	-	1
Baltimore Oriole	-	-	1	-
Ovenbird	2	-	1	-
Northern Waterthrush	6	1	6	-
Common Yellowthroats	118	4	45	1
American Redstart	38	-	23	-
Cape May Warbler	2	-	1	-
Northern Parula	2	-	-	-
Magnolia Warbler	1	-	-	-
Yellow Warbler	1	-	-	-
Black-throated Blue Warbler	7	-	3	-
Palm Warbler (western subspecies)	8	-	14	-
Prairie Warbler	1	-	-	-
Black-throated Green Warbler	1	-	-	-
Summer Tanager	1	-	-	-
Northern Cardinal	-	2	1	-
Painted Bunting	-	-	-	1

Today's Banding Stats	Captain Sams	Little Bear	TOTAL
# Birds Banded	230	112	342
# of Recaptures	12	6	18
# of Species	25	18	30
Effort (net-hours)	201.6	141.7	343.2
Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours)	120.0	83.3	104.9
# of Nets	32	25	57

2023 Fall Cumulative Banding Stats	Captain Sams	Little Bear	TOTAL
# Birds Banded	951	549	1,500
# of Recaptures	278	140	418
# of Species	41	45	53
Effort (net-hours)	5,193.75	2,788.35	7,982.1
Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours)	23.7	24.7	24.0
# of Days	34	25	-

Banding Staff

Aaron Given (CS)

Kristin Attinger (LB)

Brittany Holliker (LB)

Matt Hixson (CS)

Camille Blose (CS)

Wentao Yang (CS)

Natalie Miller (LB)