Banding has been really slow over the last week due in large part to the weather- wind and rain almost every night.
Nets were opened four nights over the last week, and closed early two of those nights due to weather.

• Oct 13: One Northern Saw-whet owl
• Oct 16: One Northern Saw-whet owl and one Boreal owl.
• Oct 18: Participants in the Kachemak Bay Birders owling trip visited, but we didn’t see any owls.

Banding has been very slow over the last few days due to weather; wind and rain every night this week, with more of the same in the forecast.
Only two new Northern Saw-whets banded- one each on the nights of the 8th and 9th.

Biggest night of the season so far with 8 owls caught.

• Oct 4: 2 Northern Saw-whet Owls. Visitors included the young birders’ group (the “F.B.I.”): Erick, Nolan, Landon, Griffin, and Owen, and parents Lori and Susan.
• Oct 5: Didn’t open nets; too windy.
• Oct 6: 6 new Northern Saw-whet Owls and 1 recapture of a Saw-whet banded 33 days ago; 1 Boreal Owl. Betsy Rogers assisted.

Still windy over the last few nights.

• 9/29: Windy, no owls banded.
• 9/30: 1 Northern Saw-whets. Windy.
• 10/1: 4 Northern Saw-whets. Toby and Laura Burke and family visited. The aurora was pretty impressive during net checks.