It’s been a slow season start so far, with only 5 new Northern Saw-whet Owls banded and 2 returning owls from last year.

But things came to a halt tonight at the first net check- I found the whole setup demolished as three moose (who apparently don’t like mist nets) went running into the woods.

Three of the four mist nets in the setup were completely destroyed. One net may be salvageable. Time to place another order with Avinet; two of the destroyed nets were new this season and hadn’t even caught an owl.

Hopefully I have enough old nets, probably full of holes, to set up tomorrow while I wait for new nets to arrive.