Last night was the busiest night so far this season with 22 owls banded: 18 Norther Saw-whets and 4 Boreals. \u00a0All but one of the Saw-whets were hatch-year birds. There were still owls vocalizing in the area when I closed up the nets at 3am. \u00a0Tonight may be another good night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Last night was the busiest night so far this season with 22 owls banded: 18 Norther Saw-whets and 4 Boreals. \u00a0All but one of the Saw-whets were hatch-year birds. There were still owls vocalizing in the area when I closed up the nets at 3am. \u00a0Tonight may be another good night.<\/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-159","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-2z","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":236,"url":"https:\/\/owls.taiga.com\/?p=236","url_meta":{"origin":159,"position":0},"title":"Owl #1000","date":"September 8, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"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\u00a0thousandth owl:","rel":"","context":"In "Banding Results"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/owls.taiga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_01141-225x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":617,"url":"https:\/\/owls.taiga.com\/?p=617","url_meta":{"origin":159,"position":1},"title":"Best year so far for Northern Saw-whets","date":"October 13, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"This season's 265th Northern Saw-whet Owl was banded last night. This makes 2020 my best banding season yet for Saw-whets; the previous top season was Fall 2011, with 261 Saw-whets banded. It remains to be seen whether or not 2011's overall total of 317 banded owls will be surpassed. 2011\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Banding Results"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":148,"url":"https:\/\/owls.taiga.com\/?p=148","url_meta":{"origin":159,"position":2},"title":"Things are picking up…","date":"September 11, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Nine owls banded tonight, all saw-whets. \u00a0All but one were hatch year birds. \u00a0The single adult was a second year bird. Also banded the season's first Boreal on Sunday night (Sep 7). 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