{"id":487,"date":"2017-10-19T18:51:42","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T18:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/owls.taiga.com\/?p=487"},"modified":"2017-10-19T18:51:55","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T18:51:55","slug":"oct-15-18-slowing-down-after-several-great-banding-nights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/owls.taiga.com\/?p=487","title":{"rendered":"Oct 15-18: Slowing down after several great banding nights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Oct 18:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 Northern Saw-whet Owl (and one returning Saw-whet first banded 4 days ago)<\/li>\n<li>2 Boreal Owls<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Oct 17:\u00a0<\/strong> \u00a0No owls banded; nets only open for a couple of hours.\u00a0 Opened late due to other commitments.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Oct 16:\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>6 Northern Saw-whet Owls banded<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Oct 15:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>9 Northern Saw-whet Owls banded<\/li>\n<li>3 Boreal Owls banded<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. Oct 18:\u00a0 1 Northern Saw-whet Owl (and one returning Saw-whet first banded 4 days ago) 2 Boreal Owls Oct 17:\u00a0 \u00a0No owls [&hellip;]<\/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-487","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-7R","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":565,"url":"https:\/\/owls.taiga.com\/?p=565","url_meta":{"origin":487,"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). I'll probably extend the effort by a week or so due to all of the rained-out nights over the last several days. Banding has remained slow throughout this season. As of tonight, 100\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Banding Results&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":490,"url":"https:\/\/owls.taiga.com\/?p=490","url_meta":{"origin":487,"position":1},"title":"Oct 19-24: Slow","date":"October 25, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"We saw our first snow over the last couple of days as things warmed up after several days of below-freezing temperatures; 4-5 inches of snow fell on the 23rd\/24th. The season's 200th owl was caught on the 22nd. Oct 24: No owls banded. Oct 23: No owls banded. 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