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 our seen only species list by at least a third. We were too late for the morning heron-ibis flight but her ears picked up a fly-over Bobolink and a fly-over Dickcissel.
Net rewards were fairly basic but 2 Yellow Warblers came back from previous seasons and having migrating birds as retraps reminds us of the focus of Sara’s degree studies about how passage migrants use Appledore Island as a stopover point. The stunning young male Hooded warbler is more likely to appear with southwest winds but individuals show up in perhaps half our fall banding years.
60th Anniversary Celebrators were in and out of the station all day and for many who were here originally for summer classes, this was the first time they had seen bird banding so we got to do lots of basic instructing. Alexa joined us in hopes of running MARS (the flight call study) and learning more about the banding process.
So, Alexa, Becky, David and Robin pass on the warmth from our well-fed observers and our hopefully well-fed birds : ) .
| Traill’s Flycatcher | 2 |
| Red-breasted Nuthatch | 2 |
| Carolina Wren | 2 |
| Gray Catbird | 7 |
| Song Sparrow | 2 |
| Ovenbird | 1 |
| Northern Waterthrush | 3 |
| Black-and-white Warbler | 3 |
| Common Yellowthroat | 3 |
| Hooded Warbler | 1 |
| Northern Cardinal | 1 |
| DAY’S TOTAL | 27 |