- 8 Northern Saw-whet Owls banded, all hatch-year
- 1 Western Screech-owl banded.\u00a0 Thanks to Aaron Lang, who found this owl in his chicken coop and let me know about it.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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Western Screech-Owl<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/owls.taiga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_0331.jpg?resize=405%2C607&ssl=1\")
Western Screech-Owl<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n Oct 12:<\/strong> No banding; rained out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Oct 11<\/strong>:\u00a0
Oct 10<\/strong>: No banding; rained out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Oct 9:<\/strong> No banding; wind\/rain<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Oct 8:<\/strong>\u00a0
Oct 7:\u00a0<\/strong>
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Banding has been slow for the last week due to lots of rain and wind, which prevented opening nets during several nights.\u00a0\u00a0 The highlight this week was a Western Screech-Owl that was found in a chicken coop; it was banded before release. Oct 13:The first good banding night after a week of rain.\u00a0\u00a0 8 Northern […]<\/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-533","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-8B","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":539,"url":"https:\/\/owls.taiga.com\/?p=539","url_meta":{"origin":533,"position":0},"title":"End of 2018 season: Oct 14-31","date":"November 3, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"October 31 was the last night of nightly owl banding for the 2018 season.\u00a0\u00a0 After a week of near-continuous bad banding conditions (nightly rain, wind, bright full moon), a week of cold, clear nights brought a couple of owls per night.\u00a0 The nets are still up for a couple of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Banding Results"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":324,"url":"https:\/\/owls.taiga.com\/?p=324","url_meta":{"origin":533,"position":1},"title":"Nov 4: First Western Screech Owl","date":"November 6, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"The first Western Screech Owl for this location was banded tonight (Nov 4). \u00a0The audio lure has included 5 min. of Western Screech Owl per hour for the last six years here, but it hasn't been successful at attracting one until tonight. 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