The night of Sep 17 was mostly clear, calm, no rain, no full moon- good conditions for owl banding (this has been rare lately).<\/p>\n
Ten Northern Saw-whet Owls were banded. \u00a0All ten were hatch-year birds. \u00a0This brings the season total to 40 Saw-whets and 2 Boreals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The night of Sep 17 was mostly clear, calm, no rain, no full moon- good conditions for owl banding (this has been rare lately). Ten Northern Saw-whet Owls were banded. \u00a0All ten were hatch-year birds. \u00a0This brings the season total to 40 Saw-whets and 2 Boreals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-results"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p90R5U-2u","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":551,"url":"https:\/\/owls.taiga.com\/?p=551","url_meta":{"origin":154,"position":0},"title":"Sep 9-17, 2019","date":"September 19, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Off to a somewhat slow start. 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