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["Bob Reilly" <rjreilly@xxxxxxx>]

Thought folks might enjoy today's banding results from Kiptopeke, as reported 
by the Coastal Virginia Wildlife Observatory's resident bander, Jethro.  His 
email to the Va. listserv appears below.  It's a very good time of year for a 
visit to Kiptopeke, especially right after a cold front!  Jethro always extends 
a warm welcome to visitors. He bands 7 days a week, starting 30 minutes before 
sunrise.  As elsewhere, early morning is the time to see the best birds.  I 
noted, however, that Arun Bose, in his visit to Bandy Field this morning, has 
Jethro beat on several species!

Bob

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: Jethrorunco@xxxxxxx 
To: va-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
Cc: rjreilly@xxxxxxx 
Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 4:00 PM
Subject: Kiptopeke banding 9/26:Nashville& Connecticut Warblers, Red-breasted 
Nuthatch


Howdy all,

Today was a much better day and one I have been waiting for for a while. We had 
a lot of good birds and a lot of GRAY CATBIRDS. We ended the day with 230 
birds, our biggest day of the season, so far. Some of the better birds banded 
today include CONNECTICUT WARBLER (and I also saw my first out-of-hand 
Connecticut in the trees also!), BLACKPOLL WARBLER, NASHVILLE WARBLER, 
BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLER, RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH, GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSHES, and 
WOOD THRUSHES.
There were a lot of thrushes around to day and we ended up banding a total of 
32 thrushes!
Not to be over looked, we banded 14 species of warblers today as well.
It was a beautiful day! We also had lots of people at the station today as 
well, over 75 visitors! They all picked a good day to be here! 
The most common bird banded today was hands down (or purple in our case) was 
GRAY CATBIRDS. We ended up banding 110 of them. 
Anyway, I do hope there are still many birds around tomorrow!!!

Here is the days list from 9/26:

American Redstart                      15
Nashville Warbler                         1        first of the season
Prairie Warbler                             1
Magnolia Warbler                         6
Black-throated Blue Warbler         15
Black-throated Green Warbler        1
Blackpoll Warbler                          3
Northern Parula                             4
Common Yellowthroat                    6
Western Palm Warbler                   1
Black-and-white Warbler                 2
Northern Waterthrush                     1
Connecticut Warbler                       1        third of the season
Ovenbird                                       11
Eastern Wood-pewee                     1
Acadian Flycatcher                        2         two in one day even!
Red-eyed Vireo                              9
Ruby-crowned Kinglet                     1
Red-breasted Nuthatch                   1         first of the season
Indigo Bunting                                4
Veery                                            11
Gray-cheeked Thrush                      12       wow!
Swainson's Thrush                           7
Wood Thrush                                   2
Song Sparrow                                  1        first of the season
Gray Catbird                                  110      yikes!
Yellow-shafted Flicker                       1

TOTAL ---------------------------------------  230      if my math is right!

I do hope to have a few left overs tomorrow, but I am pretty sure it will not 
be anything like today. But I can always hope right?!?

Cheers,
Jethro Runco
Coastal Virginia Wildlife Observatory