Period 2 - May 13th 2023

For this session, we were fortunate enough to host an exceptional bander and biologist, Jessica Griffiths. She is a wealth of knowledge and a great teacher; thank you for your contribution! Hopefully you can join us again soon.

Guest bander Dean Cutter of Capitola joined us as well, showing that extraction is in fact just like riding a bike.

A Nashville Warbler caused quite a stir in visiting out station; the first of its kind to ever visit Powell II! It was so unexpected, we nerded out long and hard to settle on what we were looking at. See photos below!

It was a good day for quail... not that we were aiming for that...

We witnessed an "egg in the shoot" (egg in the oviduct); not to be confused with other anatomy...!

New Captures:

Purple Finch: 1

Western Flycatcher: 1

Lesser Goldfinch: 1

Swainson's Thrush: 2

Spotted Towhee: 1

Warbling Vireo: 2

Nashville Warbler: 1

Orange-crowned Warbler: 2

Wilson's Warbler: 5

Bewick's Wren: 1

Wrentit: 2

Recaptures:

Swainson's Thrush: 2

Song Sparrow: 2

Spotted Towhee: 1

Wilson's Warbler: 3

Bewick's Wren: 1

Unbanded:

Allen's Hummingbird: 3

California Scrub Jay: 1

California Quail: 3

Totals:

New Captures: 19

Recaptures: 9

Unbanded: 7

Number of Species: 15

Number of Feather Pulls for Genoscape Project: 2

Number of Birds Caught: 35

2023 Running Tally:

Season New Captures: 57

Season Recaptures: 17

Season Unbanded: 11

Season Total: 85

Humans: 7

Banders:

Clint Francis

Jodi Isaacs

Jocelynn Marriott

Jessica Griffiths

Visitors:

Pfeiffer Francis

Emily Francis

Dean Cutter