Period 3 - May 23rd 2024

We hosted CalPoly student (again) who (again) provided many interesting (and many unanswerable!) questions.

It was another fairly mellow day in terms of our capture rate, but it was a great day for recaps (~60%).

A Yellow Warbler visited, an uncommon (for us) bird (28 YEWA captures since 2006).

We also banded our 4th ever Tree Swallow. No surprise there; that family has our number. In our 18th year of station history, we've captured 2 Cliff and 2 Barn Swallows.

New Captures:

Song Sparrow: 3

Tree Swallow: 1

Spotted Towhee: 1

Wilson's Warbler: 2

Yellow Warbler: 1

Wrentit: 1

Recaptures:

Bushtit: 1

Western Flycatcher: 1

Lesser Goldfinch: 1

Song Sparrow: 3

Swainson's Thrush: 4

Wilson's Warbler: 3

Wrentit: 6

Unbanded:

Song Sparrow: 1

Wilson's Warbler: 2

Totals:

New Captures: 9

Recaptures: 19

Unbanded: 3

Number of Species: 10

Number of Feather Pulls for Genoscape Project: 1

Number of Birds Caught: 31

2024 Running Tally:

Season New Captures: 43

Season Recaptures: 31

Season Unbanded: 12

Season Total: 86

Humans: 7

Banders:

Jodi Isaacs

Jocelynn Marriott

Nat Wong

Gregor Yanega

Clint Francis

Jessica Griffiths

Visitors:

Lindsay Peria