September 10th – Anticipation ….
Early this morning I opened the nets under a thin, waning crescent moon and a bright ‘morning star’. The air was clear and cool, the humidity was gone! Before the heat of the morning, I could almost anticipate the coming fall season with the cooler temperatures and the smell of leaves as I walked through them.
The morning banding was slower than yesterday and after the first couple net rounds the nets were filling up with leaves.
September 10; Banded 28
1 Yellow-shafted Flicker
2 Eastern Wood-Pewee
2 House Wren
10 Swainson’s Thrush
5 Gray Catbird
2 Tennessee Warbler
2 Nashville Warbler
1 Blackpoll Warbler
1 Scarlet Tanager
1 Northern Cardinal
1 Rose-breasted Grosbeak
ET’s: 40 spp
Nancy
Ruthven September 11th; Banded 24:
1 Eastern Wood-Pewee
1 Traill’s Flycatcher
1 House Wren
3 Swainson’s Thrushes
1 Gray Catbird
1 Warbling Vireo
1 Philadelphia Vireo
6 Red-eyed Vireo
2 Tennessee Warblers
1 Nashville Warbler
1 Blackburnian Warbler
1 Blackpoll Warbler
4 Common Yellowthroats
ET’s: 40 spp.
Nancy
Evan with his favourite bird: Blue Jay. -J. Lee
Fern Hill School Results:
September 10; Banded 4:
1 Blue Jay
1 Swainson’s Thrush
1 Nashville Warbler
1 Common Yellowthroat
ET’s: 26 spp.
Releasing the Blue Jay.
-J. Lee
September 11; Banded 10:
1 Blue Jay
4 Gray Catbirds
1 Common Yellowthroat
3 House Finches
1 American Goldfinch
ET’s: 31 spp.
Rick