Cold and clear at first light. Net #4 was frozen and we had to wait about an hour to open it. One of the first birds I heard this morning was a Tennessee Warbler – a first for the year. There was, in fact, quite a lot of bird song early – but it died down pretty quickly after the sun got well up. Although the banding numbers were…uninspiring, we had the highest species count for the overall site so far this year: 64.

Banded: 30:
1 Black-capped Chickadee
2 American Robins
2 Gray Catbirds
1 Warbling Vireo
1 Black & White Warbler
2 Nashville Warblers
3 Yellow Warblers
1 Magnolia Warbler
1 Yellow-rumped Warbler
1 Black-throated Green Warbler
3 Rose-breasted Grosbeaks
2 Song Sparrows
1 Swamp Sparrow
1 White-throated Sparrow
1 Red-winged Blackbird
1 Orchard Oriole
6 American Goldfinches

Retrapped 25:
1 Blue Jay
1 Black-capped Chickadee
1 White-breasted Nuthatch
1 Gray Catbird
1 Blue-winged Warbler
4 Yellow Warblers
1 Common Yellowthroat
3 Rose-breasted Grosbeaks
1 Indigo Bunting
3 Chipping Sparrows
1 Song Sparrow
1 Eastern White-crowned Sparrow
1 Red-winged Blackbird
1 Brown-headed Cowbird
1 Orchard Oriole
1 Pine Siskin
2 American Godlfinches

ET’s: 64 spp

Rick