[va-richmond-general] Fw: Kiptopeke banding 9/26:Nashville& Connecticut Warblers, Red-breasted Nuthatch

Thought folks might enjoy today's banding results from Kiptopeke, as reported 
by the Coastal Virginia Wildlife Observatory's resident bander, Jethro.  His 
email to the Va. listserv appears below.  It's a very good time of year for a 
visit to Kiptopeke, especially right after a cold front!  Jethro always extends 
a warm welcome to visitors. He bands 7 days a week, starting 30 minutes before 
sunrise.  As elsewhere, early morning is the time to see the best birds.  I 
noted, however, that Arun Bose, in his visit to Bandy Field this morning, has 
Jethro beat on several species!

Bob

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From: Jethrorunco@xxxxxxx 
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Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 4:00 PM
Subject: Kiptopeke banding 9/26:Nashville& Connecticut Warblers, Red-breasted 
Nuthatch


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

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