Fall 2025 Daily Reports

Hi!  It’s back to regular greetings. Monday brought about an equal amount of interest in the weather and the birds – very limited amounts of both! Winds stayed basically varieties of south all night and the birds responded appropriately. We did have one new bird more than the day before – but!  We would have had 2… Read more: Monday, Aug 25

Hey, y’all!! The energetic south winds brought us HUNDREDS!!!  : )                                       of leaves! Very few birds but one was a lovely “Christmas”  –  see below. What is going on is “DRY”. I’ve seen the Island drier but only once or… Read more: Sunday, Aug 24

More warm greetings!! South winds from Friday afternoon all through the day suggested that we would get no migrants. I’m assuming most of what we caught came the night before and just hadn’t left yet because we had more birds than I expected – nice!!    Becky on Appledore lived up to her traditions by increasing… Read more: Saturday, Aug 23

Hello and wow! David had all sorts of ideas for reporting around a dull day at the nets with supporting pictures and the birds had their own ideas. So, we had a “Christmas”  (first banding for the season)  and a “Christmas, New Year’s, and 4th. of July” (first time handled at the station – ever!!).   … Read more: Friday, Aug 22

Hi all : ) Thursday was another August day. Not much in the nets and what was there wasn’t particularly exciting. The more interesting birds were sightings; both a Merlin and a Peregrine (Sara has good eyes) in the morning, the season’s first hummingbird up by Commons around supper time, and the American Black Duck that flew by… Read more: Thursday, Aug 21

Hi again! Wednesday was a strange day. We opened the core 5 nets slightly late because of a light drizzle. We closed just after 9:00 to very scattered rain drops but quite threatening radar. The rest of the morning, I’d go out to reopen and would see little raindrops falling into the swimming pool that I couldn’t really… Read more: Wednesday, Aug 20

Hi!  It’s already the 21st! Do I even remember what happened on the 19th? It was an unexpectedly good day. We went to sleep Monday night with very light south winds and woke up to slightly more enthusiastic north-northeast winds that some birds were able to use to good advantage. Karen had to disappear about the time the… Read more: Tuesday, Aug 19

Great greetings from the “gorgeous as usual” Appledore Island! Monday was an incredibly usual sort of August bird day;  no excitements in either species seen or banded, lots of “zero rounds” especially in the afternoon, very gentle numbers of all sorts. But a real cool front passed through Sunday night – Monday morning bringing NNE winds… Read more: Monday, Aug 18

Today was our slowest day of the season so far – by one bird. Today also brought back the heat and humidity and so we spent much of the afternoon at the picnic table under the White Poplar – a bit cooler than the Werly Shed as at least we could get an occasional breeze.… Read more: Sunday, Aug 17

Today got off to a very slow start, however, a few runs into the day we began discovering new birds in the nets. Perhaps it was a late arriving wave of migration, or the birds were late risers, but some new birds had definitely found our little island. The most numerous, and perhaps most fun,… Read more: Saturday, Aug 16

Today brought a much welcome shift in the weather – slightly cooler temperatures, less humidity, and a bit of a cool-ish breeze. It was a much appreciated change! The weather change did not bring more birds, however. It was another slow day – very typical of this time of year on Appledore – and so… Read more: Friday, Aug 15

Today was another slow – and steamy hot, blazing sun – day and so we were all dragging a bit. But, as always, the upside of slow days is the time to dig deeper into each bird and compare notes and thoughts. We, of course, had our usual parade of catbirds – with a few… Read more: Thursday, Aug 14

Our first full day of banding yielded 23 birds – HY GRCAs, of course – plus a handful of migrants including a HY-M Black-and-white Warbler, a HY-M Canada Warbler, and a HY Eastern Phoebe. We also banded another HY Downy Woodpecker and had a return female Common Yellowthroat. She was originally banded in June of… Read more: Wednesday, Aug 13

And we are back! Peg and I arrived late Monday afternoon on the Heiser and headed straight down to the station to begin the process of station set-up. It was a brutally hot day with blazing sun and no breeze, and we were already sweating heavily by the time we got to the station. We… Read more: Tuesday, Aug 12