Ride the Tide

 CAPTAIN SAMS

The tide is slowly creeping higher at the station, and with that brought us some lovely sea life viewing this morning! After opening nets, we watched a bottlenose dolphin surface along the inlet, and a shuffling bluntnose stingray along the shore. The heat and humidity gave us a break today, but higher winds than yesterday resulted in closing two of our nets early. 

Our station brought in a total of 26 new birds with 6 recaps, which included American redstart, red-eyed vireo, and our FOS ovenbird! We had a slow but consistent pace to the day as I acquainted myself with the trails in addition to many of the bird species here. I may be a birder from the East coast, and this is not my first time on Kiawah Island, but there is much that I am excited to learn about how the songbirds here go through their molt as the fall approaches.

American Redstart (after hatch year, male)

LITTLE BEAR

We finished setting our nets up this afternoon! Stay tuned to see what tomorrow brings on Little Bear's first day of the 2024 season! 

-Lisa Viviano

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
Red-eyed Vireo	1	-	-	-
Ovenbird	1	-	-	-
Northern Waterthrush	10	-	-	-
Black-and-white Warbler	2	1	-	-
American Redstart	4	-	-	-
Prairie Warbler	3	-	-	-
Painted Bunting	5	5	-	-

Today's Banding Stats	Captain Sams	Little Bear	TOTAL
# Birds Banded	26	-	26
# of Recaptures	6	-	6
# of Species	7	-	7
Effort (net-hours)	145.3	-	145.3
Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours)	22	-	22
# of Nets	32	-	32

2024 Fall Cumulative Banding Stats	Captain Sams	Little Bear	TOTAL
# Birds Banded	168	-	168
# of Recaptures	61	-	61
# of Species	24	-	24
Effort (net-hours)	1,062.6	-	1,062.6
Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours)	15.8	-	15.8
# of Days	6	-	6

Banding Staff

Aaron Given

Michael Gamble

Kristin Attinger (CS)

Natalie Miller (CS)

Lisa Viviano (CS)

Noah Nei (CS)