CAPTAIN SAMS
We only captured 5 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
| 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 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 5 |
| Today's Banding Stats | Captain Sams | Little Bear | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|
| # Birds Banded | 5 | 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) | 12.6 | 15.4 | 14.0 |
| # of Nets | 32 | 26 | 58 |
| 2024 Fall Cumulative Banding Stats | Captain Sams | Little Bear | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|
| # Birds Banded | 241 | 152 | 393 |
| # 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) | 17.9 | 30.7 | 21.2 |
| # of Days | 13 | 6 | - |
Banding Staff
Aaron Given (CS)