The banding season is just about over for 2019; the planned end date is Oct 31 (tonight).
I’ll probably extend the effort by a week or so due to all of the rained-out nights over the last several days.
Banding has remained slow throughout this season. As of tonight, 100 owls have been banded. Owl #100 arrived during the last net check of the last scheduled night of banding. In addition to the new bireds banded, two owls previously banded here made return visits; one of these recaptured birds was a Northern Saw-whet Owl that was originally banded here 5 years ago in 2014.
Of the new birds banded, six were Boreal Owls, making this among the slowest Boreal seasons we’ve had here.
| Date | Northern Saw-whet Owls banded | Boreal Owls banded |
| Oct 31 | 3 | |
| Oct 30 | 1 | |
| Oct 28 | ||
| Oct 25 | 2 | |
| Oct 24 | 1 | |
| Oct 21 | ||
| Oct 19 | ||
| Oct 18 | ||
| Oct 16 | 1 | |
| Oct 15 | 1 | 1 |
| Oct 14 | 1 | 2 |
| Oct 13 | 1 | |
| Oct 12 | 2 | |
| Oct 10 | 4 |