A slightly more exciting day today, with 26 banded and 6 recaptured. Fall is definitely here, as Steve saw large flocks of Yellow-rumped Warblers and Oregon Juncos passing over down by the lake. In fact we logged 110 Yellow-rumped Warblers in our daily totals today! Interestingly, they are still not showing up in numbers in the nets – only one caught today. Not much excitement overall in terms of species banded, but a Bohemian Waxwing was sighted on census and declared the bird of the day. Lincoln’s Sparrows weren’t popping out of the shrubbery at every turn today, but Song Sparrows were sighted more often than they have been lately. They have been captured steadily since the station opened, but we caught greater numbers of them today than any day so far. Audrey and Nils, this week’s volunteers, arrived a day early and got some practice extracting birds and scribing data.
Cindy
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12 September bird quiz:
Name this not-so-colourful species.
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Total banded | 26 |
Species banded | 10 |
Total recaptured | 6 |
Species Recaptured | 3 |
Census: # Species | 28 |
Daily total: # Species | 44 |
Hi Cindy: I find Bohemian Waxwings this far south at this time of year to be of interest. When I worked in the Rockies, I would see flocks of them in September flying well above timberline in southerly directions. This was several weeks before they would show up in the valley bottoms, and they were not local breeders.
An interesting species in terms of migration timing and elevational routes.
Cranes starting to pass by this way. Have you heard any in the Tat Valley?
Rick Howie
How about Mountain Chickadee.
boreal chickadee