The bad weather “blockage” cleared overnight and migrants that had been marking time took off overnight for their breeding grounds farther north. Their leaving was quite noticeable as the edges weren’t nearly so alive with White-throat calls and the decline in overall numbers was obvious from the getgo. (The slow down was obvious in the birds per net hour calculations as well: two days we banded at the rate of 135 birds per 100 net hours; yesterday we were at 65; today just 23 – a slow day.)
Still we did record some 1sts for the year in our observations: Warbling Vireo, Yellow-throated Vireo, and Blue-winged Warbler.
Banded 27:
1 Tree Swallow
1 Red-breasted Nuthatch
1 House Wren
6 Ruby-crowned Kinglets
1 Hermit Thrush
2 Gray Catbirds
1 Nashville Warbler
2 Yellow Warblers
1 Western Palm Warbler
2 Chipping Sparrows
2 Swamp Sparrows
6 White-throated Sparrows
1 Red-winged Blackbird
ET’s: 63 spp.
Photos from today and yesterday:
Rick