Last night’s banding results:
Thanks to Kim, Micki and her visitors. Lots of owl photos and owl videos were taken last night.
The banding operation is being shut down for the next week or two; I will be out of town due to an illness in the family.
Eleven hatch-year Northern Saw-whets were banded last night. Nets were open for 4.5 hours. Conditions were ideal; dark and very little wind. The nets were stiff with frost at closing.
Thanks to Barb and Hank for the help!
Four hatch-year Saw-whets banded. Slow-going until about midnight, when the wind died down.
No banding between Sep 11 and Sep 15; I’m away on an unplanned emergency trip. I hope to open the nets again on Sep 16.
Five new hatch-year Northern Saw-whets were banded tonight before rain shut things down a little after midnight.
Tonight also saw the season’s first recapture- a second-year Saw-whet that was originally banded on Sep 21, 2014.
No banding on Sep 8,9 due to rain.
Sep 7: The station’s thousandth owl was banded last night. This was the busiest night of the season so far, with 17 hatch-year Northern Saw-whets banded.
Photos of the station’s thousandth owl:
Two hatch-year Northern Saw-whets banded. Thick fog settled in about an hour after opening the nets.
George Harbeson sent some great photos from his visit on Sep 5:
September 5: Four hatch-year Northern Saw-whets were banded. Thanks to the visitors that came out to participate. Nets were open for four hours.
September 4: Seven hatch-year Saw-whets banded. Nets were open for five hours.
September 3: No banding due to rain.
Sep 2: Five hatch-year Saw-whets banded. Nets were closed at about midnight as the rain started. Rain is predicted tonight (the 3rd), so unless things change the nets won’t be opened tonight.
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