Overwintering Arrivals Continue

CAPTAIN SAMS

We captured 58 new birds and 10 recaptures of 21 different species. We are starting to see more late migrants and wintering species arrive at the station. Flocks of Yellow-rumped Warblers arrived this morning along with first-of-season Hermit Thrush, White-crowned Sparrow, and American Robin. We also captured another Bay-breasted Warbler, which brings our total to 10 between both sites and the most we have captured in a fall. 

Hermit Thrush (hatch year, sex unknown)

White-crowned Sparrow (hatch year, sex unknown)

-Michael

LITTLE BEAR

Today was a decent day for us at Little Bear, we ended our day with a total of 91 birds and only 11 of them were recaptures. It is nice to see less recapture catbirds and seeing more of our winter birds. I am very stoked on capturing more flocks of Yellow-rumped Warblers. We got to see a decent amount of them (43 to be exact) throughout the day. 

We also added 2 new species to the station; Hermit Thrush and also a Dark-eyed Junco! It has been a few years since one has been captured at both stations. Our first one was captured at Captain Sams in 2012 and then in 2018 Captain Sams captured 2 while Little Bear captured 1. Our last year that we captured a Dark-eyed Junco was back in 2019 at Little Bear. It has been 5 years since one has been captured. I think it is so cool to see them in the hand. Being from Pennsylvania, I enjoy them a lot and love watching them at the feeders. They choose to forage on the ground more often but its fun to sit and watch them for hours. 

Dark-eyed Junco ( Hatch year, female)

-Kristin

Species	Captain Sam's		Little Bear
	New	Recaps	New	Recaps
Yellow-billed Cuckoo	1	-	2	1
Eastern Phoebe	4	1	9	-
White-eyed Vireo	-	-	1	-
Carolina Chickadee	-	1	-	-
Golden-crowned Kinglet	1	-	1	-
Ruby-crowned Kinglet	4	-	2	-
Brown Creeper	1	-	-	-
House Wren	1	-	1	-
Gray Catbird	3	8	2	8
Brown Thrasher	-	-	-	1
Hermit Thrush	5	-	1	-
American Robin	1	-	-	-
Dark-eyed Junco (slate-colored)	-	-	1	-
White-crowned Sparrow	1	-	-	-
White-throated Sparrow	-	-	1	-
Savannah Sparrow	-	-	1	-
Song Sparrow	5	-	3	-
Swamp Sparrow	1	-	4	-
Eastern Towhee	2	-	-	-
Orange-crowned Warbler	-	-	1	-
Common Yellowthroat	2	-	1	1
Cape May Warbler	-	-	1	-
Northern Parula	-	-	1	-
Bay-breasted Warbler	1	-	-	-
Black-throated Blue Warbler	2	-	2	-
Palm Warbler (western subspecies)	1	-	1	-
Yellow-rumped Warbler (myrtle subspecies)	18	-	43	-
Summer Tanager	1	-	-	-
Painted Bunting	3	-	1	-

Today's Banding Stats	Captain Sams	Little Bear	TOTAL
# Birds Banded	58	80	138
# of Recaptures	10	11	21
# of Species	21	22	29
Effort (net-hours)	168.0	135.2	303.2
Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours)	40.5	67.3	52.4
# of Nets	32	26	58

2024 Fall Cumulative Banding Stats	Captain Sams	Little Bear	TOTAL
# Birds Banded	4,389	2,865	7,254
# of Recaptures	953	781	1,734
# of Species	84	81	98
Effort (net-hours)	11,390.25	7,030,8	18,421.05
Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours)	46.9	51.9	48.8
# of Days	69	59

Banding Staff

Aaron Given (CS)

Michael Gamble (CS)

Kristin Attinger (LB)

Natalie Miller (CS)

Lisa Viviano (LB)

Noah Nei (LB)

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.