And Our Most Abundant Species Was Mosquitos

 CAPTAIN SAMS

We only captured 6 new birds and 14 recaptures of 9 different species. This is typical for these warm, humid days with south winds. For small songbirds, which is mostly what we capture early in the season, it is more difficult for them to fight against south winds. They can migrate farther south and burn less fat when traveling on a night with winds coming from the north. Unfortunately, it looks like these weather conditions will hold into early next week.

-Michael 

LITTLE BEAR

Today was a pretty slow day out at Little Bear, with only 5 new birds and 7 recaptures. We started out the morning with a decent amount of fog and - unfortunately - mosquitos. There wasn't much wind this morning which allowed the pesky mosquitos to stalk us through the fog. 

Most of our birds came from our first net run and things slowed down pretty quickly after that. The sun soon emerged and quickly warmed up the station and slowed things down even further. The majority the birds we caught today were painted buntings. The only warbler of the day was a hatch-year male prairie warbler. We hope to catch more birds tomorrow even though the weather will be about the same as it was today!

-Natalie

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	-	-
Downy Woodpecker	-	1	-	-
White-eyed Vireo	-	1	-	-
Red-eyed Vireo	1	-	1	-
Carolina Wren	-	-	-	1
Black-and-white Warbler	-	1	-	-
Common Yellowthroat	-	1	-	-
Prairie Warbler	2	1	1	-
Northern Cardinal	-	1	1	1
Painted Bunting	3	7	2	5

Today's Banding Stats	Captain Sams	Little Bear	TOTAL
# Birds Banded	6	5	11
# of Recaptures	14	7	21
# of Species	9	5	10
Effort (net-hours)	150.4	78.0	228.4
Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours)	13.3	15.4	14.0
# of Nets	32	26	58

2024 Fall Cumulative Banding Stats	Captain Sams	Little Bear	TOTAL
# Birds Banded	242	152	394
# of Recaptures	122	60	182
# of Species	27	23	34
Effort (net-hours)	2,023.2	691.5	2,714.7
Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours)	18.0	30.7	21.2
# of Days	13	6	-

Banding Staff

Aaron Given (CS)

Michael Gamble (CS)

Kristin Attinger (LB)

Natalie Miller (LB)

Lisa Viviano (CS)

Noah Nei (CS)