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Totals for the season so far: Species New bands Recaptures Total Northern Saw-whet Owl 119 2 121 Boreal Owl 1 1 Total […]<\/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-731","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-bN","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":487,"url":"https:\/\/owls.taiga.com\/?p=487","url_meta":{"origin":731,"position":0},"title":"Oct 15-18: Slowing down after several great banding nights","date":"October 19, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"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\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Banding Results"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":622,"url":"https:\/\/owls.taiga.com\/?p=622","url_meta":{"origin":731,"position":1},"title":"Slowing down for the season; 300th banded","date":"October 22, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Banding has slowed down over the last week, with 2-3 owls banded per night. Temperatures are going below freezing at night, and the nets have been frosted up by about 11pm on several nights. The 300th owl for the season was banded tonight. So far, the total (301) includes 289\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Banding Results"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/owls.taiga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/img_1660.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":372,"url":"https:\/\/owls.taiga.com\/?p=372","url_meta":{"origin":731,"position":2},"title":"Oct 9-21","date":"October 22, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Slow going, one or two owls per night on nights that I could open; lots of bad weather for banding lately. \u00a0I plan to close down the daily banding effort at the end of the month, although I might open nets a few times for the first couple of weeks\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Banding Results"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":547,"url":"https:\/\/owls.taiga.com\/?p=547","url_meta":{"origin":731,"position":3},"title":"Start of 2019 banding season","date":"September 9, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"We're up and running for another season of owl banding. Nets were set up on Aug 31, 2019 and have been opened 7 nights since then; we're starting to get a few Saw-whets. So far: Aug 31: 1 Northern Saw-whet Owl (hatch-year)Sep 1: 1 Northern Saw-whet Owl (hatch-year)Sep 3: No\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Banding Results"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":610,"url":"https:\/\/owls.taiga.com\/?p=610","url_meta":{"origin":731,"position":4},"title":"2000th owl banded","date":"October 5, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"The 2000th owl banded during 12 banding seasons at this location arrived tonight. Owl #2000 was a hatch-year Boreal Owl. Seven Saw-whets and two Boreals were banded tonight after a relatively slow week- I only banded during a few nights over the last week due to near-constant rain. 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