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| blackburnian boreal beauty |
Another great day banding at the Hilliardton Marsh thanks to our stewardship ranger crew. they are gaining great experience seeing what it is like being part of a banding operation and at the same time allowing us to run our river nets which is revealing a very bright future for the potential of research at the marsh.
This year the trend of some capturing some boreal specialists continues and we seem to be having a record fall for cape may and blackburnian warblers 2 species we sometimes do not see at all in a migration. We are currently tweaking our data organization system and hope to have full numbers available very soon, thanks Sidney Coll!!! Banding operations are always tweaking things while staying true to protocols as it is important to establish a standardized approach to banding. Sidd and I have come up with a new form for representing our daily captures which will allow us to represent the order that species will be posted on the blog in taxonomic order rather than by band size as we have been doing. No doubt this will please birders and banders alike who may have found it frustrating seeing the order i have been representing the birds . It will also allow us to enter or daily totals in a much more organized fashion so we can have a current running total of our season. Past bander in charge (BIC) Chris Sukha is going to be so happy. Always tweaking, always tweaking!! Alder flycatchers seem to be moving on and yet we were able to catch a yellow warbler which for us is the first warbler to suddenly be gone so our numbers are still high and diversity is still up so hopefully we will have a chance to band tomorrow and report on what we were able to band. Bird is the word!!!
ruby throated hummingbird 2
alder flycatcher 2
least flycatcher 4
american goldfinch 6
pine siskin 1
white throated sparrow 8
song sparrow 3
swamp sparrow 6
rose breasted grosbeak 3
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| a retrapped kingbird most likely from the spring the interesting part of this is that we only banded 2 |
red eyed vireo 12
philadelphia vireo 5
black and white warbler 2
nashville warbler 2
tennessee warbler 1
cape may warbler 2
yellow warbler 1
myrtle warbler 1
magnolia warbler 3
chestnut sided warbler 1
blackburnian warbler 2
ovenbird 3
common yellowthroat 7
wilson's warbler 2
american redstart 9
grey catbird 1
red breasted nuthatch 1
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| Reed with a blackburnian |
veery 7
swainsons thrush 4
109 birds
31 species
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| pine siskin!! last year we banded 1 in august so we are wondering if we will increase that total by 100% with another one tomorrow |
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| As is our custom I like to post the extractor of a new species for the season. Here is kiara who |
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