It's been an exciting past couple of days--it seems that the warblers have started to migrate, or at least think about it. Today, at Niagara Boat Launch, we caught a nice mixed flock of warblers, including Magnolia, Nashville, Prairie, Chestnut-sided, Yellow, and Canada Warblers. This flock of about 15 warblers all flew into one net together. All together, we caught and banded 28 birds today. We may have caught many more today, but we started netting late because of rain in the morning. Yesterday, at Frye's Landing, we banded 32 birds (10 different species). Earlier this week we had some slow days, so it's fun to see more birds each day.
Here is a list of new bird species caught at each site in the past week:
Erie Bluffs:
8/24- Wood Thrush, American Robin, Indigo Bunting, Eastern Towhee, Blue-winged Warbler, Hairy Woodpecker
8/27- Common Yellowthroat, Veery
Frye's Landing:
8/21- Song Sparrow, Common Yellowthroat
8/25- Magnolia Warbler, Canada Warbler, Gray Catbird, Great-crested Flycatcher
8/28- Blue-winged Warbler, Downy Woodpecker, Red-eyed Vireo
Niagara Boat Launch:
8/22- Eastern Tufted Titmouse, Cedar Waxwing
8/26- House Wren, Eastern Towhee, Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
8/29- Nashville Warbler, Magnolia Warbler, Prairie Warbler, Chestnut-sided Warbler, Eastern Wood Pewee, Canada Warbler, Downy Woodpecker, Gray-cheeked Thrush
In addition to all the new birds we've been banding, we have been cutting a few new net lanes at Erie Bluffs, to re-position nets that weren't catching many birds. We ended up cutting a lane in a huge patch of briars, raspberry bushes, and lots of other vegetation that was more than 6 feet high! We hope our work was worth it-- we'll find out next week once we put a net in there.
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We bought bird netting too, I had a couple of small tomatoes ruined by birdie beaks. Early on there were a couple of nice peppers and a few Juliet (grape) tomatoes - but the hail damaged many plants so might not get any Black Krim tomatoes. I’ve thrown old basil seed around and still had it come up. Don't give up yet;-]
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