Howdy all,
Waited all season for this day! We had a huge day thanks to YELLOW-RUMPED
WARBLERS! We did have a few goodies as well. I was excited when we caught our
first WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW of the season. If you know me, I do love them
sparrows!
We also caught two CAPE MAY WARBLERS, both at the opposite end of the
beautiful spectrum. Both hatch year (hatched this summer) but one was super
bright,
the other, very very dull. Still great to have them both. We also caught
another TENNESSEE WARBLER today as well.
But the biggest highlight of the day was the banding of 514 YELLOW-RUMPS! Of
course, if you are familiar with this station, you know they always make up a
large part of our overall captures. We ended the day with a total of 625 birds
banded made up of 30 species.
Exhausting day!
Tomorrow looks really bad for banding. IF the forecast is right, looks like
tomorrow is a day off!!! I could use one of them!
Here are the totals for 10/16:
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 21
Golden-crowned Kinglet 2
Brown Creeper 2
Eastern Wood-pewee 1
Eastern Phoebe 1
Tennessee Warbler 1
Cape May Warbler 2
Black-throated Blue Warbler 3
Blackpoll Warbler 1
Western Palm Warbler 1
Yellow Palm Warbler 4
Common Yellowthroat 2
Ovenbird 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler 514 umm........that's a
lot
Slate-colored Junco 2
Eastern Towhee 1
White-crowned Sparrow 1 first of the
season
White-throated Sparrow 10
Song Sparrow 5
Field Sparrow 4
Chipping Sparrow 1
Swamp Sparrow 10
House Wren 1
Red-eyed Vireo 1
Hermit Thrush 8
Gray-cheeked Thrush 1
Swainson's Thrush 1
Gray Catbird 19
Northern Cardinal 2
Blue Jay 1
Brown Thrasher 1
TOTAL ------------------------------------------ 625
Cheers,
Jethro Runco
Coastal Virginia Wildlife Observatory
