Banding is picking up again; first night for a few days without rain\/wind.<\/p>\n
Eleven owls banded tonight: ten Northern Saw-whets and one Boreal Owl. \u00a0All but one of the Saw-whets were hatch-year birds; the only adult was a 2nd year bird.<\/p>\n
Nets were open for 6.5 hours- the owls didn’t start showing up until about 11pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Banding is picking up again; first night for a few days without rain\/wind. Eleven owls banded tonight: ten Northern Saw-whets and one Boreal Owl. \u00a0All but one of the Saw-whets were hatch-year birds; the only adult was a 2nd year bird. Nets were open for 6.5 hours- the owls didn’t start showing up until about […]<\/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-285","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-4B","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":589,"url":"https:\/\/owls.taiga.com\/?p=589","url_meta":{"origin":285,"position":0},"title":"Sep 9-10: Pace is picking up","date":"September 11, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Sep 10: 20 Saw-whets banded, all hatch-year birds.Sep 9: 17 Saw-whets banded, one 2nd year, the rest hatch-year birds. 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