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CAPTAIN SAMS

Today was another productive day at Captain Sams, we caught 90 new birds and 16 recaptures. We added two new species for the year, which included Brown Creeper and Golden-crowned Kinglet. We are starting to see a transitionary period in which many of our neotropical migrants are finally past South Carolina's coast and are now beginning to see more migrants that will winter in the southern United States. With less and less neotropical migrants passing through, we are catching more Swamp Sparrows, House Wrens, Kinglets, and Yellow-rumped Warblers. 

We likely have a few really productive weeks left before things begin to taper off. We're excited to see what else shows up in our nets. 

Brown Creeper (after hatch year, unknown sex)

- Noah Nei

LITTLE BEAR

Today was a great day! We added 4 new species to Little Bear; Yellow-rumped Warbler, Eastern Phoebe, Blackpoll Warbler and Swamp Sparrow. I was having fun predicting our new species and unfortunately  it came to guessing the most obvious species. Mine was the Swamp Sparrow and someone else guessed Eastern Phoebe. 

We ended the day with a total of 115 birds with 98 of them newly banded. We were shy of 2 new birds to top it off at 100. I am impressed with out this season has been going. We reached over 2,000 birds so far but my hopes is that we have a few big days that could boost up my totals and maybe I can officially beat the record. Last year I came very close to that goal but bad weather near the end of the season stopped me from succeeding. 

Our Blackpoll Warbler was definitely our highlight species of the day. We sometimes, over the years catch a decent amount of them that get pushed back to the coast by storms. This bird, pictured below, was a nice heavy bird weighing in at 15.3 grams! That was such great news to see/hear! Typically birds that get pushed in from storms are a lot smaller with less fat. So a nice chunky bird in the hand is what banders like to see for fall migration

Blackpoll Warbler (hatch year, unknown sex)

-Kristin

Species	Captain Sam's		Little Bear
	New	Recaps	New	Recaps
Yellow-billed Cuckoo	2	-	-	-
Downy Woodpecker	-	1	-	-
Eastern Wood-Pewee	1	-	-	-
Eastern Phoebe	3	-	4	-
Golden-crowned Kinglet	1	-	-	-
Ruby-crowned Kinglet	3	-	-	-
Brown Creeper	1	-	-	-
Red-eyed Vireo	-	-	1	-
Carolina Chickadee	-	2	-	-
House Wren	6	-	6	-
Gray Catbird	27	9	23	10
Brown Thrasher	-	-	2	-
Swainson's Thrush	2	-	-	-
Swamp Sparrow	3	-	-	-
Ovenbird	-	-	1	-
Black-and-white Warbler	1	-	1	-
Common Yellowthroat	20	2	17	1
American Redstart	6	1	1	-
Blackpoll Warbler	-	-	1	-
Black-throated Blue Warbler	5	-	2	-
Palm Warbler (western)	5	-	31	-
Palm Warbler (yellow)	-	-	1	-
Yellow-rumped Warbler (myrtle)	-	-	1	-
Prairie Warbler	-	-	2	-
Indigo Bunting	1	-	-	-
Painted Bunting	2	1	1	6

Today's Banding Stats	Captain Sams	Little Bear	TOTAL
# Birds Banded	90	98	188
# of Recaptures	16	17	33
# of Species	19	16	22
Effort (net-hours)	166.4	122.2	288.6
Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours)	63.7	94.1	76.6
# of Nets	32	26	58

2024 Fall Cumulative Banding Stats	Captain Sams	Little Bear	TOTAL
# Birds Banded	3,443	2,164	5,606
# of Recaptures	646	524	1,169
# of Species	73	65	87
Effort (net-hours)	9,129.4	5,496.8	14,626.3
Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours)	44.8	48.9	46.3
# of Days	56	47

Banding Staff

Aaron Given (CS)

Michael Gamble (CS)

Kristin Attinger (LB)

Natalie Miller (LB)

Lisa Viviano (LB)

Noah Nei (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.