And on the Seventh Day...

 Captain Sams:

In anticipation of a slow day, I decided to give the banding crew the day off today.  We had a busy week last week and everyone deserved a little break from banding.  We have a cold front moving through this evening, so everybody should be fresh for a whole new batch of birds in the morning.  

I ran Captain Sams solo today.  As expected, it was pretty slow with only 15 new birds and 16 recaptures of 11 species.  
I gotta keep this one short, as I need to head out the door and get back to Kiawah to do another deer survey tonight.  Last night was the first survey of the fall.  We will do another set of two surveys in January.  These surveys will help us determine the size of Kiawah's deer population.

-Aaron

Little Bear:

No banding occurred at Little Bear today.

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
Yellow-billed Cuckoo	1	-	-	-
Eastern Phoebe	-	1	-	-
White-eyed Vireo	-	1	-	-
Carolina Wren	-	1	-	-
Swainson's Thrush	-	1	-	-
Gray Catbird	9	7	-	-
Common Yellowthroat	1	2	-	-
American Redstart	-	2	-	-
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)	2	-	-	-
Northern Cardinal	1	1	-	-
Painted Bunting	1	-	-	-

Today's Banding Stats	Captain Sams	Little Bear	TOTAL
# Birds Banded	15	-	-
# of Recaptures	16	-	-
# of Species	11	-	-
Effort (net-hours)	166.4	-	-
Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours)	18.6	-	-
# of Nets	32	-	32

2023 Fall Cumulative Banding Stats	Captain Sams	Little Bear	TOTAL
# Birds Banded	3,502	2,644	6,146
# of Recaptures	769	429	1,198
# of Species	72	78	88
Effort (net-hours)	10,545.5	6,422.9	16,968.4
Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours)	40.5	47.8	43.3
# of Days	64	53	-

Banding Staff

Aaron Given (CS)