Although rain was forecast for tonight, it’s held off.\u00a0 Banding was a little busier tonight than it has been so far this season.<\/p>\n
Nine Northern Saw-whet Owls and one Boreal Owl were banded; all hatch-year birds.
\nThe Boreal was one of the larger ones I’ve banded, weighing 163g.<\/p>\n
The next few nights look like conditions could be good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Although rain was forecast for tonight, it’s held off.\u00a0 Banding was a little busier tonight than it has been so far this season. Nine Northern Saw-whet Owls and one Boreal Owl were banded; all hatch-year birds. The Boreal was one of the larger ones I’ve banded, weighing 163g. The next few nights look like conditions […]<\/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-426","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-6S","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":565,"url":"https:\/\/owls.taiga.com\/?p=565","url_meta":{"origin":426,"position":0},"title":"Finishing up the 2019 owl banding season: Oct 9-31","date":"November 1, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"The banding season is just about over for 2019; the planned end date is Oct 31 (tonight). 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