Start of 2013 Owl Banding Season:<\/p>\n
Nets are set up (at least 3 of them are so far).
\nTwo Northern Saw-whets banded in two nights of operation so far.<\/p>\n
The first saw-whet of the season was a very aggressive hatch-year male.<\/p>\n
I currently have three 9-meter 60mm mesh nets set up in a semi-triangle around the audio lure. \u00a0I should have the 12-meter nets set up within the next few days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Start of 2013 Owl Banding Season: Nets are set up (at least 3 of them are so far). Two Northern Saw-whets banded in two nights of operation so far. The first saw-whet of the season was a very aggressive hatch-year male. I currently have three 9-meter 60mm mesh nets set up in a semi-triangle around […]<\/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-16","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-g","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":547,"url":"https:\/\/owls.taiga.com\/?p=547","url_meta":{"origin":16,"position":0},"title":"Start of 2019 banding season","date":"September 9, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"We're up and running for another season of owl banding. 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