Howdy all,
The last two days have been rather decent considering no cold front. We
managed to catch almost 100 individuals the last two days and had a few new
species
for the season. Today we caught our first CHESTNUT-SIDED WARBLER, WESTERN
PALM WARBLERS, and HOUSE WREN. Still a nice mix of birds around so I am still
excited about what tomorrow might bring. Forecasted to be windy, however. Don't
like the sound of that.
We did see a BLUE-WINGED WARBLER today so I am still hopeful that we might
catch one before they all leave.
I am going to post a list of species and numbers banded since the 1 Sept. on
the blog page I have been trying to keep up. The link is
http://kiptopeke.blogspot.com/
Also you can find the link from the Coastal Virginia Wildlife Observatory web
page as well. You should check out CVWOs web page as well! The link is
http://www.cvwo.org/ ;.
Here are the totals for 9/9:
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher 1
Traill's Flycatcher 1
American Redstart 3
Common Yellowthroat 4
Northern Waterthrush 3
Black-throated Blue Warbler 4
Black-&-white Warbler 2
Yellow Warbler 1
Carolina Chickadee 1
White-eyed Vireo 1
Red-eyed Vireo 3
Veery 5
Blue Grosbeak 1
Northern Cardinal 2
TOTAL ------------------------------------ 32
Totals for 9/10:
American Redstart 12
Magnolia Warbler 2
Chestnut-sided Warbler 1 first of the season
Common Yellowthroat 9
Black-throated Blue Warbler 9
Western Palm Warbler 2 first of the season
Black-&-white Warbler 6
Northern Waterthrush 6
Ovenbird 2
House Wren 1 first of the season
Red-eyed Vireo 9
Veery 4
Great Crested Flycatcher 1 our second of the season
Northern Mockingbird 2
TOTAL -------------------------------------- 65
Cheers,
Jethro Runco
