Sunday October 4.  32 new bandings of 8 species; 10 recaps.  We welcome a group of volunteers from Braddock Bay Raptor Research for a tour of the banding station. 

Monday October 5.  70 new of 13 species; 35 recaps.  Bird of the day is White-throated Sparrow with 36 banded.  Ben Fredrickson, a ‘ringer’ from Sweden, joins us and we compare notes on ‘our’ Winter Wren and ‘his’ European Winter Wren.  Later, he visits Dan Niven at Main Blind as Dan captures 2 Cooper’s Hawks, a Red-tailed Hawk and a Sharp-shinned Hawk. 

Tuesday October 6.  112 banded of 23 species; 25 recaps.  New species Marsh Wren, Red-breasted Nuthatch.  Bird of the day is White-throated Sparrow with 42 banded.  We get two Marsh Wrens (BBBO’s mascot bird!), one of them very young.  Dominic spends most of the day checking data from previous years and Joanna Klima visits for the day.   

Wednesday October 7.  10 new of 8 species; 8 recaps.   We dodge rain showers but only raise half our nets because of the wind.  When the front comes through, we get hundreds of leaves in the nets.  Jon Dombrowski and the crew get just 10 birds for the day and pick at least 3000 leaves out of the nets!   

Thursday October 8.  134 new of 16 species; 34 recaps.  New species Field Sparrow.
Bird of the day is again White-throated Sparrow with 73 banded.  David Bonter joins us and National Public Radio’s Flora Lichtman and Christopher Intagliata spend most of the morning video-taping the banding operation for the NPR Science Friday website.  The live broadcast is scheduled for tomorrow at Cornell University. 

Friday October 9.  78 new of 12 species; 17 recaps.  It’s another White-throated Sparrow day with 49 banded.  There is precipitation everywhere south of the lakeshore but we are able to operate for our usual six full hours.  The RIT Bander Training Class listens to the live NPR broadcast on Bird Migration with Mark Deutschlander, David Bonter, Andy Farnsworth and Sid Gauthreaux answering questions from the audience.  When David Bonter mentions that BBBO teaches a bander training class, a cheer goes up from the students.   

Saturday October 10.  82 banded of 12 species.  The early morning drizzle stops and we have a good day of banding.  Kinglets dominate the tally with 22 Golden-crowned and 29 Ruby-crowned banded. 

Note: BIC = "bander-in-charge"