Friday, September 29, 2023

RCKI, When I Catch you RCKI

 Captain Sams:

Greetings loyal blog viewers, we come to you today with an update on the banding operations at Captain Sams. We had a big day today with a total of 141 birds (16 of which were recaptures). Today was deemed "redstart day" due to the sheer number of American Redstarts that we caught (35 total)! We also had two new species for the season! An adorable Ruby-crowned Kinglet and a spunky but cute Eastern Phoebe! It was great to see these sweetie-pies in the hand for the first time!

Another highlight bird of the day was an adorable Eastern Wood Pewee! Little Bear already caught one of these little charmers a few weeks ago, but this was the first one of the season for Captain Sams! We also caught a fiesty Yellow-billed Cuckoo on the last net run of the day! Wow!

We were very surprised to be visited again by a Swainson's Warbler! As Aaron said, this little guy looked a lot like Gru from Despicable Me! It is somewhat late in the season to be catching these birds, so it definitely was an interesting catch for the day! Hopefully it continues on its migration to Central America or the Caribbean here soon!

Hatch-year Swainson's Warbler, sex unknown, Photo by Aaron



Today was a busy but rewarding day, and we are very excited to see what we will catch tomorrow!

-Natalie and Brittany



Little Bear:

Today was a great day! We ended our totals with 118 birds! That is the same amount of birds captured on our last busiest day! I was really excited to add 2 new first of the season for Little Bear, the Least Flycatcher and Indigo Bunting. 

After hatch year male Black-and-white Warbler

We also had a nice variety of species today with a total of 19 species and added our 7th, yes 7th Green Heron! This is the most Green Herons we have captured in a season. I'm hoping for more before the end of the season and also to recapture a few of them as well. 
Hopefully tomorrow brings in some more species and we can add a few more to the list!

-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 SamsLittle Bear
NewRecapsNewRecaps
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
1---
Green Heron
--1-
Eastern Wood-Pewee
1---
Traill's Flycatcher
2---
Least Flycatcher
--1-
Eastern Phoebe
1---
White-eyed Vireo
3121
Red-eyed Vireo
616-
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
1---
House Wren
2---
Gray Catbird
203221
Veery
2---
Swainson's Thrush
2-2-
Yellow-breasted Chat
-11-
Ovenbird
1-2-
Northern Waterthrush
4-21
Black-and-white Warbler
--1-
Swainson's Warbler
1---
Common Yellowthroat
273246
American Redstart
3235-
Cape May Warbler
12--
Northern Parula
4---
Yellow Warbler
1-4-
Black-throated Blue Warbler
5-3-
Palm Warbler (western subspecies)
6-26-
Prairie Warbler
-1-1
Northern Cardinal
-1-1
Indigo Bunting
1-1-
Painted Bunting
1-3-

Today's Banding StatsCaptain SamsLittle BearTOTAL
# Birds Banded
125
106
231
# of Recaptures
16
12
28
# of Species
26
19
29
Effort (net-hours)
223.2
172.5
395.7
Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours)
63.6
68.4
65.45
# of Nets
32
25
57

2023 Fall Cumulative Banding Stats Captain SamsLittle BearTOTAL
# Birds Banded
1468
1036
2504
# of Recaptures
387
193
580
# of Species
50
52
62
Effort (net-hours)
6906.55
3,898
7804.55
Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours)
26.9
31.5
28.54
# of Days443444

Banding Staff

Aaron Given (CS)
Kristin Attinger (LB)
Brittany Holliker (CS)
Matt Hixson (LB)
Camille Blose 
Wentao Yang (LB)
Natalie Miller (CS)

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