Hi all,
Here is the latest update on banding and migrants on the Eastern Shore.
In all, the season is progressing nicely with all the expected migrants
appearing in good numbers now. New birds the past week or so have been
Glossy Ibis, Chimney Swift, Northern Rough-winged Swallow, White-eyed Vireo,
Black and white Warbler and Yellow-throated Warbler. Just the last couple of
days has seen a significant increase in herons and egrets. The Ramp lane
area on the Eastern Shore Refuge has had at least two Sedge Wrens ongoing as
well as some cooperative Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed and Seaside Sparrows. An
interesting note on the Orange-crowned Warblers I have been seeing in the
area of the bunker on the Refuge...one is banded, which if it one of our
captures from two years ago would make it several years old. It seems to
have chosen this area as a suitable wintering ground more than once. The
pair of Killdeer next to the Refuge visitors center have a full clutch of
eggs already. This pair always seem to be the early birds.
Calvin Brennan
Deniz Aygen
on the Eastern Shore
Birds banded Spring 2002 March 4-31
Eastern Phoebe 3
White-eyed Vireo 1
Carolina Chickadee 5
Brown Creeper 3
Carolina Wren 8
Golden-crowned Kinglet 3
Hermit Thrush 8
Gray Catbird 6
Brown Thrasher 3
Northern Mockingbird 1
Myrtle Warbler 873
Pine Warbler 2
Common Yellowthroat 1
Eastern Towhee 3
Field Sparrow 8
Song Sparrow 18
Swamp Sparrow 4
White-throated Sparrow 8
Dark-eyed Junco 2
Northern Cardinal 13
Total 969
Recaptures of birds banded in Spring 2002
Myrtle Warbler 24
Carolina Chickadee 1
Carolina Wren 1
Hermit Thrush 1
Gray Catbird 2
Total 29
Recaptures of birds banded in Spring 2001
Carolina Wren 1
Gray Catbird 1
Myrtle Warbler 1
Swamp Sparrow 1
White-throated Sparrow 2
Northern Cardinal 1
Total 7
Recaptures of birds banded in Spring 2000
Carolina Wren 3
Gray Catbird 1
Northern Cardinal 1
Total 5
Recaptures from other sites
Sharp-shinned Hawk 1(banded at Kiptopeke, Nov 2000)
Myrtle Warbler 2
Total 3
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