September 9th – Continuing To Build – Haldimand Bird Observatory

Just part of today’s crew – and all sporting the new HBO head apparel….readily available at the banding lab.

The changing conditions with a NE wind have got migrants….migrating. Our banding numbers continue to climb – modestly but still climbing. This is the time of year when you just don’t know what you might get and variety is the highest; today we banded 19 species and encountered 51 in total.

Banded 45:
1 Mourning Dove

Two Eastern Wood-pewees. The left-hand bird is a young (HY) bird – note the buffy wing bars and relatively fresh flight feathers. The right-hand bird is an older one (AHY) – note the white wing bars and more worn flight feathers. The adults of this species don’t go through a complete moult until they have returned to their wintering grounds. -SEF

5 Eastern Wood-pewee
1 Least Flycatcher

An uncommon visitor to Ruthven: Red-breasted Nuthatch. -SEF

1 Red-breasted Nuthatch
2 White-breasted Nuthatches
1 Eastern Bluebird
1 Veery
5 Swainson’s Thrushes
1 Gray Catbird
1 Cedar Waxwing
4 Red-eyed Vireos
2 Tennessee Warblers
2 Nashville Warblers