We’ve had a very slow start of the Fall 2025 owl banding effort. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Two weeks in, a total of 17 Northern Saw-whet Owls have been banded- all hatch-year birds except for 3 second-year adults. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rain almost every night has limited the effort so far; After days of rain, we finally had good weather last night (Sep 17) and banded 5 birds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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First Northern Saw-whet banded during the Fall 2025 effort<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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Rain almost every night has limited the effort so far; After days of rain, we finally had good weather last night […]<\/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":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-results","category-photos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p90R5U-c8","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":539,"url":"https:\/\/owls.taiga.com\/?p=539","url_meta":{"origin":752,"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":636,"url":"https:\/\/owls.taiga.com\/?p=636","url_meta":{"origin":752,"position":1},"title":"Slow start to 2021 banding season","date":"September 7, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"The 2021 owl banding season here in Homer, Alaska is off to a very slow start. 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