Lake St. Clair Metropark banding report - September 1-15, 2017

The first half of September was very productive for banding, especially warblers and thrushes. Temperatures stayed around normal or slightly below, keeping it comfortable for birds and banders, and there was very little rain during the period which kept the net lanes and paths dry with very few mosquitos until September 15th. Banding was conducted on September 1, 3, 9, 10, and 15. All 5 days had 100 birds or more banded. On the down side, three nets had 6-foot holes put in them by deer running through, and two nets had 2-foot holes in top panels probably by a Red-tailed Hawk flying through.

The best warbler day was September 1, when more than 100 individuals of 18 species were banded, including not only a lot of firsts for the season, but some unusual numbers of species that historically have been banded in very small numbers back at the marsh station. Some expected firsts included Black-and-white, Tennessee, Blackpoll, Chestnut-sided, and Black-throated Blue warblers.

Hatch-year male Black-and-white Warbler

Hatch-year Tennessee Warbler

Hatch-year Blackpoll Warbler

Hatch-year male Chestnut-sided Warbler

Hatch-year male Black-throated Blue Warbler

Hatch-year female Black-throated Blue Warbler

Among the numerous warbler species this day were Nashville, Magnolia, American Redstart, and Wilson's Warblers. Less frequently captured species included a single Black-throated Green Warbler, which was captured at an average of 1.4 per fall season between 2004-2014 at the marsh station.

Hatch-year male Black-throated Green Warbler

Slightly less frequently captured, the three Blackburnian Warblers was a single-day record, and above the 1.3 per fall season average at the marsh station.

Hatch-year female Blackburnian Warbler

Hatch-year male Blackburnian Warbler

Hatch-year male Blackburnian Warbler

Between 2004 and 2014, a total of only 7 Cape May Warblers were captured in the fall (none in spring) at the marsh station, so the FIVE captured today was remarkable. And the one-day record there was only two. There have been reports of increasing numbers of this species in the past couple years, so maybe this spruce budworm specialist is making a comeback?

Hatch-year female Cape May Warbler

Hatch-year male Cape May Warbler

Hatch-year male Cape May Warbler

It was a good day for vireos as well, with the first Red-eyed and Philadelphia vireos of the season.

Hatch-year Red-eyed Vireo

Hatch-year Philadelphia Vireo

After such a great day on September 1st, it was hard to come up with new arrivals and highlights for the rest of the week. The Lincoln's Sparrow on September 3rd was the first of the fall, and was record early by 6 days.

Hatch-year Lincoln's Sparrow

September 9 was a good day for flycatchers, with 5 species banded including the 4th Great Crested Flycatcher of the season, which was a record for a fall season.

Hatch-year Great Crested Flycatcher

The 38 Swainson's and 5 Gray-cheeked (first of season) Thrushes on September 9th was a very good showing for thrushes, and the 45 Swainson's Thrushes on September 10th was a one-day record.

Hatch-year Gray-cheeked Thrush

There was a good opportunity for a side-by-side comparison of Yellow-bellied and Least Flycatchers on September 10th.

Least (left) and Yellow-bellied Flycatchers (both hatch-year)

On September 15th, the season's first Wood Thrush was one of 5 thrush species (including American Robin, and a late Veery) for the day. The Gray-cheeked Thrush recaptured today had gained 6 grams in the 5 days since it was banded. Great berry crop this year!

Hatch-year Wood Thrush

I would like to thank the following volunteers, without whose help banding on these 5 days would not have been possible: Jenifer Benke, John Bieganowski, Ana Boegehold, Terri Chapdelaine, Jacob Charlebois, Mike Charlebois, Guadeloupe Cummins, Jean Gramlich, Stevie Kuroda, Jac Kyle, Dave Lancaster, Hannah Pelkey, Edie Schmitz, Bruce Watson, Blanche Wicke.

Detailed Bird Banding Results

September 1, 2017

Time open (E.S.T.): 5:45
Time closed (E.S.T.): 12:30
Hours Open: 6.75
Sunrise (E.S.T.): 5:57
Net Hours: 113.75
Temperature (F): 55-64
Cloud Cover: 50-90%
Wind Direction: ENE
Wind Speed (mph): 5-7-12
Barometer: 30.27 - 30.27
Precipitation:  None
No. Banded: 140 (plus 11 recaptured, 3 released unbanded)
Species Captured: 37
Capture Rate (#/100 net hours): 135.4
Banding Assistants (9.0 hours worked): Mike Charlebois, Guadeloupe Cummins, Jac Kyle (7.0 hrs), Jean Gramlich, Dave Lancaster, Blanche Wicke.

Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 4 (plus 1 released unbanded)
Northern Flicker - 1
Least Flycatcher - 3
Great Crested Flycatcher - 1
Warbling Vireo - 2 (plus 2 recaptured)
Philadelphia Vireo - 1
Red-eyed Vireo - 7
Black-capped Chickadee - 1 (plus 1 recaptured)
Tufted Titmouse - 1
House Wren - 1 (plus 1 recaptured)
Marsh Wren - 1
Veery - 2
Swainson's Thrush - 3
American Robin - 1 (plus 1 recaptured, 1 released unbanded)
[Gray Catbird - 3 recaptured]
Cedar Waxwing - 1
Tennessee Warbler - 6
Nashville Warbler - 19
Yellow Warbler - 2
Chestnut-sided Warbler - 2
Magnolia Warbler - 15
Cape May Warbler - 5
Black-throated Blue Warbler - 6
Black-throated Green Warbler - 1
Blackburnian Warbler - 3
Bay-breasted Warbler - 9
Blackpoll Warbler - 7
Black-and-white Warbler - 1
American Redstart - 12
Ovenbird - 1
Northern Waterthrush - 1
Common Yellowthroat - 1
Wilson's Warbler - 12 (plus 1 released unbanded)
Canada Warbler - 2
[Song Sparrow - 1 recaptured]
Northern Cardinal - 1 (plus 1 recaptured)
American Goldfinch - 4 (plus 1 recaptured)
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September 3, 2017

Time open (E.S.T.): 6:00 (rain delayed opening)
Time closed (E.S.T.): 12:30
Hours Open: 6.5
Sunrise (E.S.T.):  5:59
Net Hours: 110.5
Temperature (F): 59-73
Cloud Cover: 100-90-100%
Wind Direction: WNW
Wind Speed (mph): 3-5-7
Barometer: 29.94 - 29.98
Precipitation: Light rain @ 5:00 - 5:45
No. Banded: 100 (plus 16 recaptured,)
Species Captured: 28
Capture Rate (#/100 net hours): 195,9
Banding Assistants (9.0 hours worked): Terri Chapdelaine, Mike Charlebois, Jacob Charlebois (3.0 hrs), Stevie Kuroda, Hannah Pelkey (8.5 hrs), Bruce Watson.

Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 7
[Downy Woodpecker - 1 recaptured]
Eastern Wood-Pewee - 5
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher - 1
"Traill's" Flycatcher - 2
Least Flycatcher - 3
Great Crested Flycatcher - 1
Warbling Vireo - 7
Red-eyed Vireo - 4
Veery - 5
Swainson's Thrush - 13 (plus 1 recaptured)
American Robin - 2 (plus 1 recaptured)
Gray Catbird - 3 (plus 2 recaptured)
Tennessee Warbler - 1
Nashville Warbler - 3
Yellow Warbler - 1
Magnolia Warbler - 7 (plus 1 recaptured)
Blackpoll Warbler - 2
American Redstart - 1 (plus 1 recaptured)
Ovenbird - 2
Common Yellowthroat - 1 (plus 1 recaptured)
Wilson's Warbler - 2 (plus 1 recaptured)
Canada Warbler - 1
Song Sparrow - 4
Lincoln's Sparrow - 1
[Northern Cardinal - 5 recaptured]
House Finch - 1
American Goldfinch - 20 (plus 2 recaptured)
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September 9, 2017

Time open (E.S.T.): 6:15 (tangled nets delayed open)
Time closed (E.S.T.): 13:45
Hours Open: 7.5
Sunrise (E.S.T.): 6:06
Net Hours: 124.75
Temperature (F): 46-62
Cloud Cover: 40-60%
Wind Direction: NW-NE
Wind Speed (mph): 3-5-12
Barometer: 30.45 - 30.48
Precipitation:  None
No. Banded: 146 (plus 15 recaptured, 2 released unbanded)
Species Captured: 24
Capture Rate (#/100 net hours): 130.7
Banding Assistants (10.0 hours worked): Ana Boegehold, Mike Charlebois, Stevie Kuroda, Hannah Pelkey (9.0 hrs), Bruce Watson (7.0 hrs). 

Ruby-throated Hummingbird -14
Eastern Wood-Pewee - 2
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher - 2
Least Flycatcher - 2
Eastern Phoebe - 1
Great Crested Flycatcher - 1
Warbling Vireo - 1
Red-eyed Vireo - 4
Black-capped Chickadee - 1 (plus 1 recapture)
House Wren - 1 (plus 1 recaptured)
Marsh Wren - 2
Gray-cheeked Thrush - 5
Swainson's Thrush - 38 (plus 1 recaptured)
American Robin - 1
Gray Catbird - 2 (plus 2 recaptured)
Nashville Warbler - 12
Magnolia Warbler - 2
Black-throated Blue Warbler - 2
American Redstart - 1
Northern Waterthrush - 1
Common Yellowthroat - 1 (plus 1 recaptured)
Song Sparrow - 5
Northern Cardinal - 1
American Goldfinch - 44 (plus 9 recaptured, 2 released unbanded)
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September 10, 2017

Time open (E.S.T.): 5:45
Time closed (E.S.T.): 12:15
Hours Open: 6.5
Sunrise (E.S.T.):  6:07
Net Hours: 110.5
Temperature (F): 46-70
Cloud Cover: 10-60%
Wind Direction: NW-E-S
Wind Speed (mph): 3-5-10
Barometer: 30.498 - 30.50
Precipitation: None
No. Banded: 127 (plus 21 recaptured)
Species Captured: 22
Capture Rate (#/100 net hours): 133.9
Banding Assistants (8.5 hours worked): Jenifer Benke, Mike Charlebois (3.0 hrs), Guadeloupe Cummins, Stevie Kuroda, Edie Schmitz, Bruce Watson (8.0 hrs), Blanche Wicke.

Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 11
Eastern Wood-Pewee - 1
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher - 1
Least Flycatcher - 1
Philadelphia Vireo - 1
Red-eyed Vire0 - 3
[Marsh Wren - 1 recaptured]
Gray-cheeked Thrush - 7 (plus 1 recaptured)
Swainson's Thrush - 45 (plus 2 recaptured) [record!]
[Gray Catbird - 2 recaptured]
Tennessee Warbler - 1
Nashville Warbler - 6
Black-throated Blue Warbler - 1
American Redstart - 2
[Ovenbird - 1 recaptured]
Northern Waterthrush - 1
Common Yellowthroat - 2 (plus 1 recaptured)
Wilson's Warbler - 3
[Song Sparrow - 1 recaptured]
Swamp Sparrow - 1
Northern Cardinal - 3 (plus 1 recaptured)
American Goldfinch - 37 (plus 11 recaptured)
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September 15, 2017

Time open (E.S.T.): 6:00
Time closed (E.S.T.): 12:30
Hours Open: 6.50
Sunrise (E.S.T.): 6:12
Net Hours: 110.50
Temperature (F): 63-77
Cloud Cover: 20-0%
Wind Direction: S-SE
Wind Speed (mph): 3-5-7
Barometer: 30.08 - 30.13
Precipitation:  Fog in a.m.
No. Banded: 108 (plus 12 recaptured, 1 released unbanded)
Species Captured: 22
Capture Rate (#/100 net hours): 109.5
Banding Assistants (9.5 hours worked): John Bieganowski, Mike Charlebois, Dave Lancaster, Blanche Wicke. 

Ruby-throated Hummingbird -5
Downy Woodpecker - 1 (plus 1 recaptured)
Northern Flicker - 1
Eastern Wood-Pewee - 1
Warbling Vireo - 1
Red-eyed Vireo - 2
Veery - 1
Gray-cheeked Thrush - 5 (plus 1 recaptured)
Swainson's Thrush - 16
Wood Thrush - 1
American Robin - 1
Gray Catbird - 4 (plus 1 recaptured)
Tennessee Warbler - 2
Nashville Warbler - 1
Magnolia Warbler - 2
American Redstart - 2
Ovenbird - 2
Common Yellowthroat - 1
Song Sparrow - 5 (plus 2 recaptured)
Lincoln's Sparrow - 1
Northern Cardinal - 1
American Goldfinch - 52 (plus 7 recaptured, 1 released unbanded)
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A Once in a Lifetime Opportunity

For the first time in 99 years, a total solar eclipse was going to cross the contiguous U.S. from Oregon to South Carolina, and the path of totality was only about an 8-hour drive south for us. How could we resist? Instead of heading for an expensive, scenic, and probably crowded resort in Wyoming or Oregon, our strategy was to find an open patch of farmland where we could be fairly alone, and be able to relocate if clouds threatened. Looking at Google Earth, we found a fairly open spot within the Shawnee National Forest in southern Illinois, and one street less than 2 miles from the center of the shadow's 71 mile wide path jumped out at me...

We drove down to Evansville, Indiana on Sunday, August 20, where we stayed for the night. It was surprising there were vacancies, and at reasonable prices. On Monday, August 21, we headed west, then south, to get to our chosen spot for the beginning of the eclipse, which began at 11:54 a.m. (CDT).

I was able to take photos of the partial phases of the eclipse by using my Canon PowerShot with the lens of a pair of eclipse viewing glasses over the lens. Because the auto-focus on this camera could not focus on the smaller image when in optical zoom mode, I had to go up to the lower resolution of the digital zoom, so no sunspots are visible in these images. Next time (2024), I'll make sure I have a solar filter for my SLR.

At least three times from the onset of the eclipse to totality, clouds covered the sun. Overall, there was about 60-70% cloud, and building, as the time for totality approached.

It was quite tense with so much cloud, but since there was not a spot that looked any more clear, we decided to stay put and not try to chase after clear skies.

More clouds, and more nail biting...

As more and more of the sun was covered by the moon, we were getting hopeful that there would be an opening in the clouds during totality.

Back home in Michigan, the maximum extent of the eclipse was approximately that in the photo above.

After the photo above, the sun became an even narrower sliver, but the PowerShot would not focus on it, so it was time to turn our attention to the main event, 2 minutes and 41 seconds of totality. But 5 minutes before it was to start, there was a cloud over the sun! Luckily, it cleared away in a couple of minutes, and we were ready. I had a whole routine of different exposures to take, based on a table provided online, and to make sure I knew when totality was ending, I had a timer set for 2 minutes, 30 seconds, that I started when totality started. I hoped that the new Nikon D500 SLR, and Sigma 100-400mm lens would perform well. Totality began at 1:21 p.m. (CDT).

With no filters, no auto focus, no auto-anything, the first great shot was the one above, at 1/500th second (at f/11), which shows some of the corona, as well as three solar flares along the right side of the sun. But the shot below, taken at 1/15th second, shows approximately what we saw with the naked eye.

This was truly an awesome sight, with dark skies similar to that at 30 minutes before sunrise, but with a blue band of sky down at the horizon. During totality, a Field Sparrow and Vesper Sparrow broke into song, and a few minutes after it was over, and Eastern Meadowlark sang. If it wasn't late summer, there might have been a more dramatic change in the soundscape. A drop in temperature may have been noticed by some, but in southern Illinois with the heat index well over 100 degrees, we didn't notice much. Then, as the timer went off, I took the camera off the tripod and cranked the shutter speed up to 1/8000 second in preparation for a couple of final effects, that last only a second or two, "Bailey's Beads", and the "Diamond Ring" effect, just as the moon starts uncovering the sun. I only got off two hand-held shots, and missed most of the beads, but I think I nailed the ring...

We watched through eclipse glasses for just another couple of minutes before packing all the equipment back into the car, and making our way back to the freeway, which took us 5 hours to go 50 miles. The price of such a wonderful natural phenomenon was to endure an epic and unnatural traffic jam! Let's do it again on April 8, 2024 in Ohio!

Lake St. Clair Metropark - First Month of Fall Banding

After a busy summer of banding hummingbirds, fall songbird banding at Lake St. Clair Metropark, Macomb County, Michigan, was started on August 6. Continued interruptions to my schedule made it difficult to post a mid-month summary of banding results and highlights, so this entry will cover all six days of banding effort during August. The intended protocol is to band two days each week, so we did not meet the 8 day target. Banding was conducted on August 6, 13, 18, 25, 26, and 27. Full details of each day's results is posted at the end of this entry.

Banding is started in early August at this station to try to document some of the productivity of the nesting birds in the banding area, as well as to detect the earliest arriving migrants, some of which begin migrating in late July. One of the target early migrants is also a breeding species, the Yellow Warbler. Numbers captured can vary significantly from year-to-year depending on how early they vacate the breeding areas. This month, a fair number of them were captured, mostly hatch-year individuals, but also a few adult birds including recaptures that were banded this spring.

Hatch-year Yellow Warbler

Some of them are bright yellow, and may be males, but if they lack chestnut streaks, they are better left un-sexed. Other individuals are much duller.

Hatch-year Yellow Warbler

Juvenile Yellow Warblers are extensively white on their underparts, and they molt out of this plumage very soon after fledging, so it is unusual to capture individuals like the one in the photo below as late as August.

Hatch-year (juvenile) Yellow Warbler

Another early migrant is the Baltimore Oriole, which has usually left the area by early September. This month, only a couple were captured, including this heavily molting adult female.

After hatch-year female Baltimore Oriole

Additional locally breeding species documented by the capture of juveniles this month included Downy Woodpecker, Eastern Kingbird, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Marsh Wren, American Robin, Common Yellowthroat, European Starling, and Red-winged Blackbird.

Hatch-year (juvenile) female Downy Woodpecker

Hatch-year Eastern Kingbird

Hatch-year Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

Hatch-year (juvenile) Common Yellowthroat

Hatch-year (juvenile) Marsh Wren

Hatch-year (juv. molting into first basic plumage) female European Starling

Hatch-year (juvenile) male Red-winged Blackbird

It was an excellent month for hummingbirds, with the first day on August 6 turning up an unexpectedly high total of 11, and the total for the month reached 48, most of them hatch-year birds as is typical of this site in fall.

Hatch-year male Ruby-throated Hummingbird

Hatch-year female Ruby-throated Hummingbird

Some adults of locally nesting species captured, many showing still showing physiological signs of breeding, included Great Crested Flycatchers, Warbling Vireo, Red-eyed Vireo, Indigo Bunting, and American Goldfinches.

After hatch-year (female?) Great Crested Flycatcher

After hatch-year female Red-eyed Vireo

After hatch-year female Cedar Waxwing

After second-year male Indigo Bunting

More unusual were adult females of two species, with brood patches, that don't nest in the park. One was a Least Flycatcher, which has in the past summered in the park, but rarely, and there has never been evidence of them breeding. The other was a Veery, which has probably not been documented in the park during summer, and which breeds in a somewhat different habitat, and requires more acreage than the woodlands in this park offers. She was captured on August 6 showing a brood patch, and captured again on August 25 with the brood patch mostly gone (MAPS code 4), and was heavily molting both contour and flight feathers at that time. Were these two individuals molt migrants? Breeding areas for both of these species can be found within 50 miles to the northwest and north, so they did not need to migrate very far to get here.

After hatch-year female Least Flycatcher

After hatch-year female Veery

Several typical mid-August migrants, including those shown below, were also captured, with only the waterthrush, redstart, and Canada Warbler being captured in the first half of the month, and all the others making their first appearance during the August 25-27 banding sessions, as is typical for most fall seasons.

Hatch-year Yellow-bellied Flycatcher

Hatch-year Swainson's Thrush

Hatch-year Ovenbird

Hatch-year Northern Waterthrush

Hatch-year female Nashville Warbler

Hatch-year male American Redstart

Hatch-year Magnolia Warbler

Hatch-year Bay-breasted Warbler

Hatch-year Mourning Warbler

Hatch-year male Wilson's Warbler

Hatch-year male Canada Warbler

The weekend of August 19-20 was the 100th anniversary of the nearby Selfridge Air National Guard Station, and during our banding on the 18th, we got to see a little bit of the practice for the airshow by the Thunderbirds as they flew very low, and very fast, over the park.

Banding would not have been possible on these 6 days without the generous assistance of the following volunteers: Anna Boegehold, Serena Boegehold, Mike Charlebois, Guadeloupe Cummins, Owen Faust, Stevie Kuroda, Jac Kyle, Dave Lancaster, Steve Mangas, Bruce Watson, Christian Zammit, and Julian Zammit. Thank you!

In a few days, I will post my observations of an astronomical event that occurred on August 21.

Detailed Bird Banding Results

August 6, 2017

Time open (E.S.T.): 6:00
Time closed (E.S.T.): 12:45
Hours Open: 6.75
Sunrise (E.S.T.): 5:30
Net Hours: 113.75
Temperature (F): 61-77
Cloud Cover: 100-90-100%
Wind Direction: Calm-SW
Wind Speed (mph): 0-5
Barometer: 30.12 - 30.13
Precipitation:  None
No. Banded: 78 (plus 16 recaptured, 3 released unbanded)
Species Captured: 23
Capture Rate (#/100 net hours): 85.3
Banding Assistants (9.5 hours worked): Guadeloupe Cummins, Mike Charlebois, Jac Kyle, Stevie Kuroda, Bruce Watson (8.0 hrs). . 

Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 11 (plus 2 released unbanded)
Downy Woodpecker - 1
Least Flycatcher - 1
Willow Flycatcher - 3
"Traill's" Flycatcher - 1
Eastern Kingbird - 1
Warbling Vireo - 4
Red-eyed Vireo - 1
Black-capped Chickadee - 1
Carolina Wren - 1
House Wren - 1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 1
Veery - 1
American Robin - 7 (plus 1 recaptured)
Gray Catbird - 5 (plus 1 recaptured)
Cedar Waxwing - 4
Yellow Warbler - 13 (plus 2 recaptured)
Common Yellowthroat - 2
Song Sparrow - 2 (plus 2 recaptured)
Northern Cardinal - 2 (plus 4 recaptured)
Indigo Bunting - 1
Red-winged Blackbird - 2 (plus 1 recaptured)
Baltimore Oriole - 2
American Goldfinch - 10 (plus 5 recaptured, 1 released unbanded).
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August 13, 2017

Time open (E.S.T.): 5:45
Time closed (E.S.T.): 12:30
Hours Open: 6.75
Sunrise (E.S.T.):  5:37
Net Hours: 113.75
Temperature (F): 61-79
Cloud Cover: 40-0-50%
Wind Direction: Calm-S
Wind Speed (mph): 0-3-10
Barometer: 30.11 - 30.14
Precipitation: None
No. Banded: 79 (plus 13 recaptured, 2 released unbanded)
Species Captured: 14
Capture Rate (#/100 net hours): 82.6
Banding Assistants (9.5 hours worked): Anna G. Boegehold, Serena Boegehold (5.0 hrs), Mike Charlebois, Stevie Kuroda, Bruce Watson.

Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 5 (plus 1 recaptured)
"Traill's" Flycatcher - 3
Warbling Vireo - 3
Black-capped Chickadee - 1 (plus 1 recaptured)
Gray Catbird - 4 (plus 2 recaptured)
American Robin - 6
European Starling - 13
Common Yellowthroat - 2
Northern Waterthrush - 1
Song Sparrow - 2 (plus 2 recaptured)
[Northern Cardinal - 3 recaptured]
Red-winged Blackbird - 35 (plus 3 recaptured, 2 released unbanded)
American Goldfinch - 3
House Sparrow - 1
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August 18, 2017

Time open (E.S.T.): 6:00
Time closed (E.S.T.): 10:30
Hours Open: 4.5 (wind, rain, & humidity forced early close)
Sunrise (E.S.T.): 5:42
Net Hours: 72.25
Temperature (F): 72-80
Cloud Cover: 10-100%
Wind Direction: SW
Wind Speed (mph): 7-10-15
Barometer: 29.78 - 29.76
Precipitation:  Trace rain
No. Banded: 33 (plus 9 recaptured)
Species Captured: 13
Capture Rate (#/100 net hours): 58.1
Banding Assistants (7.5 hours worked): Mike Charlebois, Guadeloupe Cummins, Jac Kyle, Steve Mangas (3.0 hrs). . 

Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 6
Willow Flycatcher - 1
"Traill's" Flycatcher - 3
American Robin - 3
Gray Catbird - 1 (plus 4 recaptured)
Cedar Waxwing - 1
Yellow Warbler - 1
American Redstart - 1
[Common Yellowthroat - 1 recaptured]
Canada Warbler - 1
Northern Cardinal - 5
Common Grackle - 1
Baltimore Oriole - 1
American Goldfinch - 8 (plus 4 recaptured)
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August 25, 2017

Time open (E.S.T.): 6:00
Time closed (E.S.T.): 13:30
Hours Open: 7.5
Sunrise (E.S.T.):  5:50
Net Hours: 124.75
Temperature (F): 51-73
Cloud Cover: 20-50%
Wind Direction: NNE
Wind Speed (mph): 1-3-10
Barometer: 30.28 - 30.32
Precipitation: None
No. Banded: 60 (plus 6 recaptured)
Species Captured: 22
Capture Rate (#/100 net hours): 52.9
Banding Assistants (10.0 hours worked): Jac Kyle, Dave Lancaster, Mike Charlebois (6.0 hrs).

Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 15
Downy Woodpecxker - 1
Eastern Wood-Pewee - 2
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher - 3
"Traill's" Flycatcher - 1
Least Flycatcher - 3
Warbling Vireo - 3 (plus 1 recaptured)
Black-capped Chickadee - 1 (plus 1 recaptured)
Marsh Wren - 2
Swainson's Thrush - 1
American Robin - 3 (plus 1 recaptured)
Gray Catbird - 5 (plus 1 recaptured)
Magnolia Warbler - 3
Bay-breasted Warbler - 1
American Redstart - 1
Northern Waterthrush - 1
Common Yellowthroat - 2 (plus 1 recaptured)
Wilson's Warbler - 3
Song Sparrow - 1
Northern Cardinal - 1 (plus 1 recaptured)
Baltimore Oriole - 1
American Goldfinch - 6
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August 26, 2017

Time open (E.S.T.): 5:45
Time closed (E.S.T.): 11:45
Hours Open: 6.00
Sunrise (E.S.T.): 5:51
Net Hours: 98.50
Temperature (F): 52-73
Cloud Cover: 20-40%
Wind Direction: NNW-NE
Wind Speed (mph): 1-3-7
Barometer: 30.34 - 30.36
Precipitation:  None
No. Banded: 28 (plus 5 recaptured)
Species Captured: 17
Capture Rate (#/100 net hours): 33.5
Banding Assistants (8.0 hours worked): Mike Charlebois, Guadeloupe Cummins, Owen Faust, Stevie Kuroda, Christian Zammit, Julian Zammit. 

Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 3
[Downy Woodpecker - 1 recaptured]
"Traill's" Flycatcher - 1
Great Crested Flycatcher - 1
Black-capped Chickadee - 1
[Veery - 1 recaptured]
Swainson's Thrush - 2
American Robin - 2
[Gray Catbird - 1 recaptured]
American Redstart - 1
Ovenbird - 1
Common Yellowthroat - 1 (plus 1 recaptured)
Wilson's Warbler - 4
Song Sparrow - 4
Northern Cardinal - 2 (plus 1 recaptured)
House Finch - 1
American Goldfinch - 4
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August 27, 2017

Time open (E.S.T.): 5:45
Time closed (E.S.T.): 11:45
Hours Open: 6.00
Sunrise (E.S.T.):  5:52
Net Hours: 98.50
Temperature (F): 54-74
Cloud Cover: 50-100%
Wind Direction:  Calm-NE
Wind Speed (mph): 0-5
Barometer: 30.28 - 30.24
Precipitation: None
No. Banded: 24 (plus 5 recaptured)
Species Captured: 12
Capture Rate (#/100 net hours): 29.4
Banding Assistants (8.5 hours worked): Stevie Kuroda, Bruce Watson.

Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 8
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher - 2
American Robin - 1
[Gray Catbird - 1 recaptured]
Nashville Warbler - 1
Yellow Warbler - 1 (plus 1 recaptured)
Magnolia Warbler - 1
Mourning Warbler - 1
Wilson's Warbler - 3
Song Sparrow - 1
Northern Cardinal - 1 (plus 1 recaptured)
American Goldfinch - 4 (plus 2 recaptured)
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