Howdy all,
The last two days have been a little better in the number of captures but it
is still pretty low what should be here this time of year. The last two days
we have also see quite a bit of drizzle which has "dampened" netting. Yesterday
there were birds dripping from the trees at the park but we only managed to
catch 132. The highlight of the day was the banding of a GREEN HERON!!! It
might possibly be the first one ever banded here!! Yippee! Yesterday we also
saw a
large push of BLACK-THROATED BLUE WARBLERS, AMERICAN REDSTARTS, and GRAY
CATBIRDS. Today we saw a slight change in the species with CATBIRDS still being
dominate but the BLUES seemed to have moved out of the area. As a very
interesting side note from the last two days was the amount of fat most birds
were
carrying! They are all HUGE! The birds were the fattest I have ever seen at
Kiptopeke. Totally amazing! They must have been stacked up for a while.
Anyway, here are the totals for the last two days. As another note, notice
that there were NO YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERS caught!! Where are they?
10/10 totals:
GREEN HERON 1 I think you all know how excited I am on
this one!!
A. Redstart 19
Magnolia 2
N. Parula 5
Black-throated Blue 35
Black-throated Green 1 first of the season
C. Yellowthroat 4
Black-and-white 1
Blackpoll 1
Western Palm 1
E. Wood-pewee 1
Traill's Flycatcher 1
Indigo Bunting 4
Gray Catbird 56 a few around!
TOTAL ------------------------ 132
10/11 totals:
A. Redstart 9
Magnolia 4
N. Parula 3
Blackpoll 2
Back-throated Blue 3 a lot less than yesterday
Black-and-white 4
Western Palm 4
Yellow Palm 1
C. Yellowthroat 3
Ovenbird 1
Yellow-breasted Chat 2
Field Sparrow 1
Indigo Bunting 5
Red-eyed Vireo 2
Swainson's Thrush 1
Gray Catbird 46 still a few around
N. Mockingbird 1
N. Cardinal 1
TOTAL ------------------------- 93
The next few days look to be a little windy. Hope it's not. We need more nice
days of lots of birds!!
Cheers,
Jethro Runco
