We've had quite the busy week out on Presque Isle. On Sunday the 11th, we banded 108 birds!! Then on Monday 10/12, we banded 56 birds, and on Wednesday 10/14, we banded 72 birds! We were at Frye's Landing for all of these big days. It seems like the combination of weather and the time of year pushed a lot of birds our way over the weekend. Most of the birds we caught those days were Yellow-rumped Warblers and Golden-crowned or Ruby-crowned Kinglets. We've also been catching higher numbers of other species than we had earlier in the fall, including Brown Creepers, Winter Wrens, Hermit Thrushes, Eastern Phoebes, one White-crowned Sparrow, one Western Palm Warbler, and of course, many White-throated Sparrows. This week also marked our first Blue Jay caught at Frye's Landing; all other Blue Jays had been caught at Erie Bluffs. We also netted the second Dark-eyed Junco of the season, and the first Blackpoll Warbler. We hope to see more of the Blackpolls, and we expect many more Yellow-rumped Warblers.
Also on Sunday, in the midst of banding the numerous Yellow-rumps and Kinglets, we caught the same (we think!) hybrid warbler! We took the same measurements again, and pictures, to compare to our previous hybrid. It seems like it was the same bird, caught a week later than the first time.
A male Yellow-rumped Warbler
Golden-crowned Kinglet and Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Here's the list of new species we've banded since the previous post:
Erie Bluffs:
10/8- Western Palm Warbler, White-throated Sparrow
Frye's Landing:
10/5- Golden-crowned Kinglet, Yellow-rumped Warbler
10/11- Brown Creeper, Swamp Sparrow, Blue Jay, Blackpoll Warbler, Eastern Phoebe
10/14- Dark-eyed Junco
Niagara Boat Launch:
10/6- Winter Wren
10/10- Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Golden-crowned Kinglet, White-crowned Sparrow, American Goldfinch, Hermit Thrush
10/13- Lincoln's Sparrow
Here are two more of the new species we've caught: on the left, a Winter Wren. On the right, a White-crowned Sparrow.
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