Eleven hatch-year Northern Saw-whets were banded last night. \u00a0Nets were open for 4.5 hours. \u00a0Conditions were ideal; dark and very little wind. \u00a0The nets were stiff with frost at closing.<\/p>\n
Thanks to Barb and Hank for the help!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Eleven hatch-year Northern Saw-whets were banded last night. \u00a0Nets were open for 4.5 hours. \u00a0Conditions were ideal; dark and very little wind. \u00a0The nets were stiff with frost at closing. Thanks to Barb and Hank for the help!<\/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-251","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-43","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":577,"url":"https:\/\/owls.taiga.com\/?p=577","url_meta":{"origin":251,"position":0},"title":"Start of 2020 banding season","date":"August 23, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"The 2020 banding season started off here last night with nine Northern Saw-whet Owls banded. All were hatch-year birds. 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