It’s been a busy two days as weather conditions have resulted in a lot of migrants going to ground in our area. We have banded 200 birds in these two days and number of species encountered each day is over 70. These are the days that make one forget all the slow miserable ones.
And as an added bonus: the Burlington Fern Hillians did an overnight so they could fully take in the variety of habitats and organisms that Ruthven contains.
May 9th; Banded 121
2 Mourning Doves
1 Traill’s Flycatcher
1 Least Flycatcher
1 Red-breasted Nuthatch
3 House Wrens
3 Ruby-crowned Kinglets
1 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1 Veery
6 Gray Catbirds
1 Cedar Waxwing
5 Blue-headed Vireos
1 Warbling Vireo
1 Yellow-throated Vireo
6 Nashville Warblers
14 Yellow Warblers
2 Magnolia Warblers
1 Black-throated Green Warbler
6 Western Palm Warblers
3 Black & White Warblers
3 Ovenbirds
1 Northern Waterthrush
4 Common Yellowthroats
10 Rose-breasted Grosbeaks
2 Chipping Sparrows
2 Field Sparrows
4 Lincoln’s Sparrows
1 White-throated Sparrow
3 Eastern White-crowned Sparrows
12 Baltimore Orioles
4 Orchard Orioles
15 American Goldfinches
ET’s: 77 spp.
May 10th; Banded 79:
2 Ruby-throated Hummingbirds
1 Traill’s Flycatcher
1 Eastern Flycatcher
1 Great Crested Flycatcher
1 Blue Jay
1 Red-breasted Nuthatch
1 House Wren
5 Ruby-crowned Kinglets
1 Veery
1 American Robin
4 Gray Catbirds
1 Blue-headed Vireo
7 Nashville Warblers
2 Northern Parulas
10 Yellow Warblers
1 Magnolia Warbler
3 Myrtle Warblers
2 Western Palm Warblers
1 Common Yellowthroat
6 Rose-breasted Grosbeaks
1 Indigo Bunting
1 Lincoln’s Sparrow
1 White-throated Sparrow
1 Eastern White-crowned Sparrow
18 Baltimore Orioles
5 American Goldfinches
ET’s: 71 spp.
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Rick