The first night with the nets open resulted in 9 Northern Saw-whets banded. \u00a0All 9 were hatch-year birds, many with pin feathers evident on the feet \/ legs. \u00a0Nets were open for 2.5 hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The first night with the nets open resulted in 9 Northern Saw-whets banded. \u00a0All 9 were hatch-year birds, many with pin feathers evident on the feet \/ legs. \u00a0Nets were open for 2.5 hours.<\/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-210","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-3o","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":711,"url":"https:\/\/owls.taiga.com\/?p=711","url_meta":{"origin":210,"position":0},"title":"2023 owl banding season","date":"September 12, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Owl banding has started a bit late here in Homer, AK this year. 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