Strong, cold NE winds blew most of yesterday, throughout the night and all morning. My sense is that it slowed bird movement considerably (even though it offered a tailwind) – it was just too strong. We (myself and the Baggers) opened most of the nets. Mercifully the rain held off and the Limb Reaper did not go overboard loading the nets with leaves.
There was an interesting difference between what we were catching in the banding area above the flata and what the Baggers were pulling in on the flats: we banded 30 Yellow-rumped Warblers but only 4 White-throated Sparrows; The Baggers got 14 White-throats and no Yellow-rumps.
Banded 58:
1 Downy Woodpecker
1 Blue Jay
1 Brown Creeper
6 Golden-crowned Kinglets
3 Ruby-crowned Kinglets
1 Swainson’s Thrush
3 American Robins
1 Gray Catbird
1 Cedar Waxwing
1 Tennessee Warbler
1 Black-throated Blue Warbler
30 Yellow-rumped Warblers
2 Lincoln’s Sparrows
4 White-throated Sparrows
1 Eastern White-crowned Sparrow
1 American Goldfinch
ET’s: 40 spp.
Bagger Banding (River Flate); Banded 21:
3 Ruby-crowned Kinglets
1 Western Palm Warbler
2 Song Sparrows
1 Swamp Sparrow
14 White-throated Sparrows
Photo Gallery:
-C. Scholtens
-C. Scholtens
Rick