Migration Monitoring – October 9th & 10th, and a few pictures

October 10th
Election day in Ontario, and the Yellow-rumped Warblers must have mistaken Ruthven park for their polling station. Scads of them dropped into the park at dawn. I collected 25 Yellow-rumps in the first net round, and then with the wind and swirling leaves, I decided to close the nets. If banding conditions had been better, I’m sure I could have banded 50 more, for it was one of those days where you could hear their call note everywhere, all morning long.

Banded 52:
1 Black-capped Chickadee
3 Ruby-crowned Kinglets
25 Yellow-rumped Warblers
1 Common Yellowthroat
1 Scarlet Tanager
3 Song Sparrows
1 Lincoln Sparrow
9 White-throated Sparrows
1 Eastern White-crowned Sparrow
7 American Goldfinches

Retrapped 6:
1 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
1 Eastern Bluebird
2 Yellow-rumped Warblers
1 Song Sparrow
1 American Goldfinch

Loretta

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October 9th

A warm 19 degrees at opening. The stars were out but there were no overhead call notes. Shortly after daybreak a light breeze picked up from the north and, voila!, instant fog (that stayed around most of the morning). There were ‘patches’ of birds around but nothing in big numbers. [However, if we had the competent personpower to run the long #8 net chain down to the river across the flats, we would have picked up a lot more birds as there was a lot of activity along the river.]

A highlight for me was that we only had to band 1 American Goldfinch.

Banded 42:
3 Swainson’s Thrushes
4 Hermit Thrushes
4 American Robins
1 Orange-crowned Warbler
6 Yellow-rumped Warblers
1 Blackpoll Warbler
1 American Redstart
3 Song Sparrows
2 Lincoln’s Sparrows
2 Swamp Sparrows
12 White-throated Sparrows
1 Eastern White-crowned Sparrow
1 Dark-eyed Junco
1 American Goldfinch

Retrapped 13:
2 Black-capped Chickadees
1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet
1 Swainson’s thrush
5 Hermit Thrushes
1 Field Sparrow
1 Song Sparrow
2 American Goldfinches

Rick

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Here are a few images from the past few weeks:

Our ‘Autumn Treasures’ from September 29th, 2007.
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Here are a few images from the portfolio of the Ezra Campanelli. The Campanellis are regular visitors at Ruthven. Click the thumbnails for a larger image.
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