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Banding Summary:
Week of September 12, 2004 |
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Sunday September 12. 12 new, 5 recaps; new species Philadelphia Vireo. It's a very slow day with just a trickle of birds. Kelly Dockery is BIC with help from Erin Karnatz, Kevin Dockery and the Wolcotts.
Monday September 13. 29 new, 4 recaps; new species Connecticut Warbler, and Indigo Bunting. Cindy Marino is BIC and we welcome our new Research Assistant, Peter Doherty who has spent the past spring and early summer banding at Manomet. It is great to have Ryan Kayhart back as our fall 2004 Intern.
Tuesday September 14. 51 new, 14 recaps; new species Brown Creeper, Blackburnian Warbler, and Savannah Sparrow. Delaney and Rowen Ford watch Mom Erin Karnatz band. We open up for two hours before sunset and are able to add about 20 birds to the day's tally.
Wednesday September 15. 34 new, 26 recaps; new species White-eyed Vireo and Tennessee Warbler. Paul Weld and Dick O'Hara arrive just in time to see our bird of the day - a HY White-eyed Vireo. We welcome three new volunteers: Cricket Fegan, Lee Scofield, and Tami Walsh. A couple of hours of pre-sunset banding nets us the first Tennessee Warbler of the fall season.
Thursday September 16. 21 new, 14 recaps; new species Yellow-rumped (Myrtle)
Warbler. We welcome Anne and Phoebe Lakin and Phoebe adopts a Black-capped Chickadee that she releases. Anne joins Donna Hilborn for a couple of hours of planting Solomon Seal, Wild Geranium, Queen of the Prairie, Joe Pye Weed, Bittersweet, and other 'volunteers' in our Memorial Garden. RIT student James Casey begins the five-week Bander Training Course.
Friday September 17. 49 new, 21 recaps; new species Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Winter Wren, Golden-crowned Kinglet, Gray-cheeked Thrush, Gray-cheeked/Bicknell's Thrush, Field Sparrow, Swamp Sparrow, and Dark-eyed (Slate-colored) Junco. The remnants of Hurricane Ivan dump copious amounts of rain, but we stay dry along the lakeshore the whole day! The winds are from the NE and it is cooler finally; eight new species are banded. The variety of species - 26 - is a new high for this fall. We band seven new
chickadees--a sign of things to come?
Saturday September 18. 37 new, 6 recaps; new species Hairy Woodpecker, Northern (Yellow-shafted) Flicker, Blue-headed Vireo, and Western Palm Warbler. We are joined by 18 students of Sara Morris from Canisius College and 9 students from Mark Deutschlander's Senior Seminar on Bird Migration from Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Emily Patterson and her mother help scribe.
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