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
