fall banding is going really well

Virginia Rail wandered in the net first time ever in a net!!!!!

Not sure really where to start I have so much data at my finger tips but do not know how to get it from an excel file to this blog . Sarah Bonnet the marsh intern is responsible for organizing all of our data so i think it best that she posts a blog to explain  the significance of everything. So for now I am going to break in town in very simple terms we are catching a lot of birds!!!!!!

Jocelin with a redtstart thanks for the Donation of blakc oil bird seed and cracked corn a big help for us  and much appreciated 

So far we have banded 1323 of 54 species and we are just into our third week. We have had  7 days banding over 100 bird our largest day being 154 on  august 10th and we had our biggest species day so far on the 11th catching 35 different species . We are so very fortunate to have such keen volunteers and hopefully the weather will hold out so that we can keep the research going .

our 9th  phoebe of the year what is going on !!!! That's more than the 5 we had banded in all time before this year and those were in the last 2 years



Well that is it for now just wanted to let you know  we are having a record banding fall and will have more details to follow shortrly


Bird is the word!!!