Howdy all,
Sorry for the lack of posts recently. Been busy with many things.
Anyway, the 28th and 29th were very slow days. Only banded 14 total for those
two days. Today was much better, but still less than I was hoping for. Same
ol story I guess. We banded a total of 119 today and had a very nice diverse
day with a total of 25 species. Although we didn't catch as many as I was
hopeful for, we did catch a few great species. Some of the highlights include
not
one but two CONNECTICUT WARBLERS! We even caught two TENNESSEE WARBLERS as well
today. Tennessee's were missed last year (a year in which we banded 35 species
of warblers!).On one of our last runs of the day, we caught a beautiful hatch
year male BAY-BREASTED WARBLER. We also caught our first HOODED WARBLER of
the season. And for just a taste of what's to come, we caught our first
YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERS of the season as well.
Although not much for numbers, there were a lot of species in the park this
morning. We also saw BLACKPOLL and CAPE MAY WARBLERS as well.
BLACK-THROATED BLUE WARBLERS were in good numbers today.
Here is the lists for the last three days:
9/28:
American Redstart 2
Black-throated Blue Warbler 1
House Wren 1
Carolina Wren 2
Gray Catbird 4
Brown Thrasher 1
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 1
TOTAL ---------------------------------- 12
9/29:
Red-eyed Vireo 1
Gray Catbird 1
TOTAL ----------------------------------- 2 yep, that's it.
9/30:
Magnolia Warbler 3
Prairie Warbler 1
American Redstart 10
Tennessee Warbler 2 first of the season
Black-and-white Warbler 1
Black-throated Blue Warbler 27
Bay-breasted Warbler 1 first of the season
Common Yellowthroat 10
Yellow-rumped Warbler 5 Myrtles race, first of the
season
Connecticut Warbler 2 wow, two in one day!!!
Hooded Warbler 1 first of the season
Eastern Wood-pewee 2
House Wren 2
Indigo Bunting 6
Red-eyed Vireo 4
Gray-cheeked Thrush 1
Swainson's Thrush 1
Veery 3
Blue Grosbeak 1
Gray Catbird 27
Northern Cardinal 3
Northern Mockingbird 2
Brown Thrasher 2
Blue Jay 1
Northern Flicker 1 Yellow-shafted
TOTAL ------------------------------------- 119
Not sure what to expect tomorrow morning. Hopefully a bunch, but I doubt it
will be as good as I would like!!
Hope everyone can get out this weekend and enjoy the good birds and the great
weather!!!
Cheers,
Jethro Runco
