Monday, April 19, 2010

Banding 4/18/10


Following are the results:

Site: BCCER-TOSL
Date: April 18, 2010- sunday
Weather: 50-73*F, calm to light breeze, clear skies
Net Hours: 39.5
Banders: Garcia, S&R King, G.Sandovol, 3 Hubers!!- thanks everyone! Steve took all of the great pics too.
Birds captured: 12 individuals of 8 species;
3 Orange-crowned warbler (1 recap 4/09- at least 3 years old)
2 Bushtit (1 recap F from 5/2009- see nits [maybe lice eggs?] in head feathers)
1 Hammond's flycatcher (see pic [HAFL]- if anyone wants more evidence let me know- we've got it [see pic empid_research).
2 Spotted Towhee
1 Gambell's white-crowned sparrow
1 Bewick's wren (1 recap from 4/2007 is 5 years old!!!- still an undetermined sex due to no breeding characters at this time)
1 White-breasted nuthatch (recap from 5/09- this male is at least 4 years old)
1 Lesser Goldfinch (recap from '08- a 4 year old goldie!)

Credit of Dawn Garcia

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