As weather usually does it changed back to north winds and strengthened on Monday and Tuesday closing down the banding operation.
We managed to band the rest of the week, with average numbers seen.
We were re-trapping a lot of the "migrant" species, indicating they were not moving out at night. They were feeding up, and most re-trap weights were up from the initial capture weights.
After this strong front moves through we are expecting a good push of birds....
TOTALS week of April 8 - 14
Eastern phoebe 15
Golden-crowned kinglet 26
Ruby-crowned kinglet 2
Winter wren 3
Brown creeper 9
American robin 4
Hermit thrush 10
Fox sparrow 6
Song sparrow 11
Field sparrow 1
Swamp sparrow 2
Savannah sparrow 1
American tree sparrow 11
Slate-colored junco 11
American goldfinch 1
Western palm warbler 1
Myrtle warbler 1
Red-winged blackbird 3
Brown-headed cowbird 5
TOTAL species 19 TOTAL birds 124
Photo courtesy of Sara Stratton
