Thrushing Through the Water

 CAPTAIN SAMS

Today was a good day out at Captain Sams! We ended up with 80 new birds and 5 recaptures. Many of the familiar characters made an appearance, including red-eyed vireos, American redstarts, and (of course) common yellowthroats. We also got a couple of gray catbirds. We are not currently catching a lot of these birds but we will see them in mass come October. We also got 3 new species for Captain Sams this season, an indigo bunting, Swainson's thrush, and a magnolia warbler. It is nice to see some migrants coming through the station!

It is currently king tide, meaning it is pretty wet out at the station. The water reached up to the table this morning, leading to some wet feet. Regardless, we still had a productive and fun day. Tomorrow is looking like it will be a pretty good day and we are excited to see what birds we catch!

Special thanks to the Kiawah Island Naturalist Group for coming out! We hope you had a good time!

-Natalie

LITTLE BEAR

Today was not what we expected to be. We ended up with a total of 46 newly banded birds and 10 recaptures. Our new species of the day is a swainson's thrush! It was nice to see a new migrant for the day. We didn't get too much excitement but our hopes are being held out for tomorrow. Water levels are still pretty high, which makes walking around the station difficult yet kind of fun at times! My hopes are some new migrants and just higher numbers. Seeing that the winds are still northernly and a tad west winds will be bringing in some great birds. Whether they are our typical common yellowthroats or not, I'm pretty excited to see some numbers.

-Kristin

Species	Captain Sams		Little Bear
	New	Recaps	New	Recaps
Acadian Flycatcher	1	-	-	-
Traill's Flycatcher	1	-	-	-
White-eyed Vireo	2	-	-	-
Red-eyed Vireo	13	-	7	-
Carolina Wren	-	2	-	1
Gray Catbird	2	-	2	-
Brown Thrasher	-	1	-	-
Northern Mockingbird	1	-	-	-
Veery	4	-	1	-
Swainson's Thrush	4	-	1	-
Ovenbird	1	-	-	-
Northern Waterthrush	2	-	4	1
Black-and-white Warbler	-	-	1	-
Common Yellowthroat	28	1	16	-
American Redstart	7	-	2	-
Magnolia Warbler	1	-	-	-
Yellow Warbler	1	-	2	-
Black-throated Blue Warbler	2	-	1	-
Palm Warbler (western subspecies)	3	-	-	-
Prairie Warbler	4	-	2	-
Northern Cardinal	-	-	-	2
Indigo Bunting	2	-	-	-
Painted Bunting	1	1	7	6

Today's Banding Stats	Captain Sams	Little Bear	TOTAL
# Birds Banded	80	46	126
# of Recaptures	5	10	15
# of Species	21	14	23
Effort (net-hours)	134.4	147	281.4
Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours)	63.2	38.1	49.75
# of Nets	32	26	58

2024 Fall Cumulative Banding Stats	Captain Sams	Little Bear	TOTAL
# Birds Banded	1068	801	1869
# of Recaptures	314	245	559
# of Species	46	47	59
Effort (net-hours)	5406.8	2,929.4	8336.2
Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours)	25.6	35.7	29.1
# of Days	35	26

Banding Staff

Aaron Given (CS)

Michael Gamble (LB)

Kristin Attinger (LB)

Natalie Miller (CS)

Lisa Viviano (LB)

Noah Nei (CS)

Nancy Raginski (CS)

Kiawah Island Naturalist Group (CS)

Note:  All banding, marking, and sampling is being conducted under a federally authorized Bird Banding Permit issued by the U.S. Geological Survey’s Bird Banding Lab.