After being away for a couple of weeks (and during the peak of the migration, unfortunately), the nets are set up again. \u00a0Rain has prevented opening them for the last couple of nights, but four new Northern Saw-whets (all hatch-year) were banded on Monday night (Oct 5).<\/p>\n
The weather is looking better towards the weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
After being away for a couple of weeks (and during the peak of the migration, unfortunately), the nets are set up again. \u00a0Rain has prevented opening them for the last couple of nights, but four new Northern Saw-whets (all hatch-year) were banded on Monday night (Oct 5). The weather is looking better towards the weekend.<\/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-256","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-48","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":372,"url":"https:\/\/owls.taiga.com\/?p=372","url_meta":{"origin":256,"position":0},"title":"Oct 9-21","date":"October 22, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Slow going, one or two owls per night on nights that I could open; lots of bad weather for banding lately. \u00a0I plan to close down the daily banding effort at the end of the month, although I might open nets a few times for the first couple of weeks\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Banding Results"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":487,"url":"https:\/\/owls.taiga.com\/?p=487","url_meta":{"origin":256,"position":1},"title":"Oct 15-18: Slowing down after several great banding nights","date":"October 19, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Things have slowed down over the last couple of nights as the temperatures dropped below freezing.\u00a0 This follows several good banding nights that seem to have come later in the season than usual. 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