{"id":676,"date":"2021-09-30T08:55:53","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T08:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/owls.taiga.com\/?p=676"},"modified":"2021-09-30T08:55:53","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T08:55:53","slug":"more-owls-showing-up-over-the-last-week-and-a-meteor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/owls.taiga.com\/?p=676","title":{"rendered":"More owls showing up over the last week- and a meteor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Banding has picked up a little over the last week or so. Although it’s still a comparatively slow season, I’ve been banding at least a few owls every night lately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sep 29<\/td>4 Northern Saw-whets banded; 2 hatch-year, 2 adults<\/td><\/tr>
Sep 28<\/td>4 Northern Saw-whets banded, all hatch-year<\/td><\/tr>
Sep 27<\/td>6 Northern Saw-whets banded, all hatch-year<\/td><\/tr>
Sep 26<\/td>9 Northern Saw-whets banded, all hatch-year<\/td><\/tr>
Sep 25<\/td>6 Northern Saw-whets banded, 1 adult, 5 hatch-year. Also first Boreal Owl of the season.<\/td><\/tr>
Sep 24<\/td>1 Northern Saw-whet banded, hatch-year<\/td><\/tr>
Sep 22<\/td>2 Northern Saw-whets banded, both adult (second-year)<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

And tonight, at almost midnight, a bright green meteor lit up the sky while I was out checking the nets. I had never seen one quite so bright\/close. A couple of minutes later, a loud, distant explosion was heard from the north. It should be interesting to learn more about this event; I’ve already heard of other sightings around Homer and from communities to the north.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Banded Northern Saw-whet after release<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Banding has picked up a little over the last week or so. Although it’s still a comparatively slow season, I’ve been banding at least a few owls every night lately. Sep 29 4 Northern Saw-whets banded; 2 hatch-year, 2 adults Sep 28 4 Northern Saw-whets banded, all hatch-year Sep 27 6 Northern Saw-whets banded, all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-results"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p90R5U-aU","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","post_type":"post","author_name":"jason","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/owls.taiga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/owls.taiga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/owls.taiga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owls.taiga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owls.taiga.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/owls.taiga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":678,"href":"https:\/\/owls.taiga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676\/revisions\/678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/owls.taiga.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owls.taiga.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owls.taiga.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}