The long weekend has been cool and damp (if not outright wet) most of the time. I had been hoping that these conditions would have resulted in a “fall-out” but, alas, it just wasn’t to be. Well….we didn’t get any bird fall-outs but we did seem to have a fall-out of humans: in the past 3 days a multitude of volunteers contributed 120 “volunteer hours” – much of those hours going to service the 77 visitors that made it to the site. Ironically, we had 1 more visitor than we had banded birds (76)over these 3 days!
May 20th; Banded 24:
1 Black-billed Cuckoo
3 Blue Jays
3 Gray Catbirds
1 Cedar Waxwing
1 Red-eyed Vireo
5 Yellow Warblers
3 Common Yellowthroats
1 Indigo Bunting
1 Common Grackle
2 Baltimore Orioles
3 American Goldfinches
ET’s: 63 spp.
May 21st; Banded 18:
1 Mourning Dove
1 Yellow-billed Cuckoo
1 White-breasted Nuthatch
2 Eastern Bluebirds
1 American Robin
1 Gray Catbird
2 Warbling Vireos
4 Yellow Warblers
1 Black-throated Green Warbler
1 Common Yellowthroat
1 Song Sparrow
1 Baltimore Oriole
1 American Goldfinch
ET’s: 55 spp.
May 22nd; Banded 34:
1 Traill’s Flycatcher
1 Least Flycatcher
1 White-breasted Nuthatch
1 Gray-cheeked Thrush (1st of the year)
7 Gray Catbirds
1 Cedar Waxwing
1 Warbling Vireo
4 Red-eyed Vireos
1 Tennessee Warbler
2 Yellow Warblers
2 Magnolia Warblers
1 American Redstart
1 Ovenbird
5 Common Yellowthroats
2 Indigo Buntings
1 Song Sparrow
1 Baltimore Oriole
1 Orchard Oriole
ET’s: 63 spp.
Photo Gallery (including shots sent over the past week – which explains the sunshine in some of them):
Rick