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Banding Summary:
Week of September 17, 2006 |
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Sunday September 17. 53 new of 23 species; 16 recaps; new species Blue-headed Vireo, Gray-cheeked Thrush, and Eastern White-crowned Sparrow. David Bonter is BIC. We are pleased to have a large turnout for our afternoon open house.
Monday September 18. 51 new of 24 species; 18 recaps; new species Hooded Warbler.
Greta Stephany comes for part of the day to mend nets for us … just one of many ways our volunteers serve Braddock Bay Bird Observatory! We band a beautiful Hooded Warbler – one of 11 warbler species.
Tuesday September 19. 13 new of 7 species; 14 recaps. We have rain during the morning so set up late and capture few birds. Donna Hilborn and Virginia Duffy work on our Memorial Garden and also dig up the roots of some (invasive) Pale Swallow-wort we found in the banding area.
Wednesday September 20. 36 new of 19 species; 14 recaps. Dr. Kristi Hannam brings 20 students from her Animal Behavior Lab at SUNY Geneseo for part of the morning. We get eight warbler species.
Thursday September 21. 116 new of 26 species; 25 recaps; new species Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Golden-crowned Kinglet, and Dark-eyed Junco. We enjoy a visit from Dick O’Hara who sits in the sun and watches the birds as they are released. It’s a good day with good variety. Birds of the day are Ruby-crowned Kinglet with 24 banded and White-throated Sparrow with 26 banded. Jarred Bennett, working for his Eagle Scout ranking, begins work installing our new kiosk near our Memorial Garden.
Friday September 22. 93 new of 27 species; 17 recaps; new species Brown Thrasher.
It’s a particularly nice day with Jon Dombrowski BIC and lots of good help. We have flurries of activity in the back aerial nets. Three Brown Thrashers are a treat, but the bird of the day is a screaming Yellow-shafted Flicker thoroughly enjoyed by the RIT students in our bander training class!
Saturday September 23. 61 new of 16 species. Bob McKinney, with help from Ryan Kayhart, Rachel Muheim, Pat Lovallo and Chita McKinney are able to band between rain drops. Bird of the day is White-throated Sparrow with 24 banded. The Boy Scouts are busy all day finishing work on the new kiosk, hauling our brush piles into the woods so our field can be mowed at the end of the season, and filling pot-holes in our driveway with gravel.
Note: BIC = "bander-in-charge"
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