NOTE: WE WILL BE TRYING FOR SAW-WHET OWLS ON SATURDAY NIGHT (STARTING AROUND 8 PM)
We’ve had 2 days of rain, heavy at times, light a times, but pretty steady. Yesterday (20th) I was all for catching up on data inputting but Carol wasn’t having much of that so we opened a couple of nets and set out some traps during the lulls and ended up handling 20 birds. Today (21st) it was coming down pretty hard but let up around 9:15 which allowed us to open 2 nets and a few traps to catch 13 birds which we used for a display for some Grade 5’s from Brantford. (No sooner did we make a catch but the rain started again and we closed). On both days we got some more data entered. Still, our Fall banding total is falling more and more behind previous years……
October 20th; Banded 13:
1 Golden-crowned Kinglet
2 Ruby-crowned Kinglets
1 Hermit Thrush
1 Yellow-rumped Warbler
1 Song Sparrow
6 Dark-eyed Juncos
1 American Goldfinch
ET’s: 31 spp.
October 21st; Banded 8:
1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet
2 Dark-eyed Juncos
1 Purple Finch
1 House Finch
3 American Goldfinches
ET’s: 30 spp.
Rick
Fern Hill School – Burlington:
Fern Hill has been getting the same weather as we have…..
But on Wednesday (19th):
Banded 10
White-breasted Nuthatch 1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 3
American Robin 2
Myrtle warbler 1
Blackpoll wArbler 1
Slate-collided junco 1
House finch 1
ET’s: 25 spp.
Janice
And today (21st), during a lull, they banded:
1 American Robin
1 Song Sparrow
1 Dark-eyed Junco
ET’s: 23 spp.