A busy morning with birds to band, a class of grade 3/4 students, and visitors filling the time and space in the banding lab. Loretta came to help today and I’ve enjoyed working with her over the past two days at Ruthven. Thanks Loretta!
New birds for the year banded today were: a Swainson’s Thrush, and a Tennessee Warbler.

Birds Banded – 38
Mourning Dove – 1
Swainson’s Thrush – 1
American Robin – 1
Gray Catbird – 5
Blue-winged Warbler – 1
Tennessee Warbler – 2
Yellow Warbler – 2
Chestnut-sided Warbler – 1
Magnolia Warbler – 7
American Redstart – 2
Wilson’s Warbler – 1
Rose-breasted Grosbeak – 4
Indigo Bunting – 1
Song Sparrow – 1
Common Grackle – 3
Brown-headed Cowbird – 1
Baltimore Oriole – 1
American Goldfinch – 3

Birds Retrapped – 20
White-breasted Nuthatch – 1
House Wren – 1
Eastern Bluebird – 1
American Robin – 2
Gray Catbird – 2
Yellow Warbler – 1
Common Yellowthroat – 1
Rose-breasted Grosbeak – 1
Song Sparrow – 3
Red-winged Blackbird – 1
Brown-headed Cowbird – 4
Baltimore Oriole – 1
American Goldfinch – 1

Nancy