sky shark

 On Friday April 15th I had another chance to get out to the marsh and was having a wonderful day banding  and a net check revealed this beautiful bird in the net

This was the first one we had banded this year although we did catch a  shrike originally banded 2 years earlier at kerns public school

banding totals for the day are as follows

red winged blackbird  1

northern shrike 1

purple  finch  1

common grackle 2

slate coloured junco 2  there are no dark eyed junco at the marsh :)

american tree sparrow 3

common redpoll 38

in addition we had 2 red winged blackbird retraps in the net at the same time it turns out they were both originally caught the same day almost a year ago on may 16th  there band numbers are  

1212-20074  and 1212- 20082 my bet is they were caught at the same time a year ago. Have to love retraps !!!