Things have picked up a little over the last couple of nights, despite the bright moon.
The incoming storm makes it pretty certain that there will be no banding tomorrow night (Sep 20).
Not much activity during the last week due to so much rain, but there is finally a break in the rain that promises a few good nights for banding. Over the last week:
The season’s first Boreal Owl showed up on Sep. 6.
Over the past few nights:
Sep 8: 1 Northern Saw-whet Owl (rain closed things down early)
Sep 6: 3 Northern Saw-whets and one Boreal Owl
Sep 5: 4 Northern Saw-whets
Sep 3: 2 Northern Saw-whets.
All of these birds (Sep 3 – Sep 8) were hatch-year birds except for the Boreal Owl (2nd year).
Our thousandth Northern Saw-whet showed up last night.
Although we hit the thousandth owl banded last fall, this was the thousandth of this species banded here in the 7+ seasons of banding.
Recent results:
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