Not many good nights for banding over the last week; lots of rain and\/or wind.\u00a0 A few owls were banded on the nights that nets were opened:<\/p>\n
Oct 11: 7 Northern Saw-whets banded; one was a second-year bird, the rest were hatch-year birds.<\/p>\n
Oct 9: 1 Northern Saw-whet banded.\u00a0 Thanks to Erick and Veronica for the help and company.<\/p>\n
Oct 8: 2 Northern Saw-whets banded. Thanks to the Kachemak Bay Birders and trip leader Gary Lyon for visiting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Not many good nights for banding over the last week; lots of rain and\/or wind.\u00a0 A few owls were banded on the nights that nets were opened: Oct 11: 7 Northern Saw-whets banded; one was a second-year bird, the rest were hatch-year birds. Oct 9: 1 Northern Saw-whet banded.\u00a0 Thanks to Erick and Veronica for […]<\/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-482","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-7M","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":278,"url":"https:\/\/owls.taiga.com\/?p=278","url_meta":{"origin":482,"position":0},"title":"October 17-18","date":"October 20, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Banding has been slower for the last couple of nights. 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