{"id":636,"date":"2021-09-07T17:00:13","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T17:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/owls.taiga.com\/?p=636"},"modified":"2021-09-07T17:01:15","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T17:01:15","slug":"slow-start-to-2021-banding-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/owls.taiga.com\/?p=636","title":{"rendered":"Slow start to 2021 banding season"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The 2021 owl banding season here in Homer, Alaska is off to a very slow start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nets have been open (weather permitting) since Aug 20, but before last night, only a single owl had been caught- a returning 2nd year Northern Saw-whet Owl that was originally banded here 366 days earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last night, three owls showed up- all Northern Saw-whet adults. One was another 2nd year bird with a band (again, banded here exactly 366 days earlier); the other two were after-second-year adults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So far, NO hatch-year birds have been banded during this season, making this season start the slowest in 12 years of banding here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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First owl of the 2021 banding season- a Northern Saw-whet previously banded here in 2020<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The 2021 owl banding season here in Homer, Alaska is off to a very slow start. Nets have been open (weather permitting) since Aug 20, but before last night, only a single owl had been caught- a returning 2nd year Northern Saw-whet Owl that was originally banded here 366 days earlier. Last night, three owls […]<\/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-636","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-ag","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":752,"url":"https:\/\/owls.taiga.com\/?p=752","url_meta":{"origin":636,"position":0},"title":"Start of 2025 owl banding season","date":"September 18, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"We've had a very slow start of the Fall 2025 owl banding effort. Two weeks in, a total of 17 Northern Saw-whet Owls have been banded- all hatch-year birds except for 3 second-year adults. 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