Howdy all,
Finally after a week of low numbers, we caught a few more birds today. The
highlights came early in the morning. A BICKNELL'S THRUSH on 6am net run made
for some good pictures. This was the best looking Bicknell's I have seen. All
the field marks were quite prominent. If you saw this bird out of hand (in the
wild), this would have been maybe the easiest Bicknell ID possible. Great
looking bird. Also early this morning we caught not one but two WILSON'S
WARBLERS.
Towards the end of the day we caught our first YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO of the
season as well.
Migration seems to be winding down here but you wouldn't know it by the
BLACKPOLL numbers!
Heres the totals for the day:
MAGNOLIA 3
WILSON'S 2
REDSTART 2
YELLOW 1
C. YELLOWTHROAT 3
BLACKPOLL 12
E. WOOD-PEWEE 1
RED-EYED VIREO 2
VEERY 1
BICKNELL'S THRUSH 1
GRAY CATBIRD 4
YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO 1
C. GRACKLE 4
TOTAL --------------------------------- 37
Tomorrow is my last day at the banding station. My last chance for Swainson's
and Cerulean Warblers! I am sure they will be there too! Right?
Nonetheless, it has been a good season. I think we have banded 79 species so
far of 1,126 individuals. We have had a lot of repeats from this season which
is what we want and to top it off, we had two foreign recaptures as well.
I can't wait to see what tomorrow holds!
Cheers,
Jethro Runco
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