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August 2000 ***New: Click on thumbnails to see pictures of birds banded!***
29 August: The season's first Canada and Nashville Warblers were banded today.
28 August: A Bay-breasted Warbler was banded today. Green Darner dragonflies
are on the move.
27 August: Chestnut-sided, Wilson's, and Blackburnian Warblers were in the Craves yard today. The first noticable movement of Common Nighthawks began at dusk.
Banding results 21-25 August: 3.5 days, 69 birds (46 new, 23 recaps) of 17 species. Highlights include Magnolia and Black-and-White Warblers, American Redstart, Rose-breasted Grosbeak, 2 more Eastern Kingbirds. 24 August: A Swainson's Thrush was in the banding area today.
22 August: The first fall Black-and White Warbler was banded today.
21 August: The first fall Magnolia Warbler was banded today.
20 August: The first fall American Redstart was in the Greenfield/Michigan Avenue area today, and a Northern Harrier was seen in west Dearborn.
Scroll down for some other critters we've had to wrangle out of our nets lately!!
Banding results 14-18 August: 3 days, 89 birds (78 new, 11 recaps) of 19 species. Highlights include Tennessee Warbler, Indigo Bunting, Great Crested Flycatcher, Eastern Kingbird, Least Flycatcher. August 16: A (that?) Tennessee Warbler was banded today along with a Least Flycatcher, and a Blue-gray Gnatcatcher was seen (we have very few fall records).
August 14: Banding began today, and a Tennessee Warbler was seen.
August 11: A Cooper's Hawk seen near Rotunda and Greenfield is one of only a few summer records.
Other stuff we
catch in our nets:
Big ugly stag beetle, probably
Pseudolucanus capreolus
Spotted Grapevine Beetle, Pelidnota punctataJuly 2000
July 13: We've received word that an adult female Indigo Bunting banded by RRBO on 27 May 1999 was found dead on 30 May 2000 in Nobleton, Ontario, which is just northwest of Toronto. This is our second recovery of this species. One might suspect that buntings should probably be in the vicinity of their nesting grounds so late in spring, so it might look like this bunting isn't exhibiting much site fidelity. A similar curious pattern can be seen with the other recovery, a male we banded on 13 May 1995 which was found dead in Bowling Green, OH on 6 June 1997. It seems likely he must have nested in southern Michigan in 1995, yet was south of here in nesting season 1997. Just a couple examples of the unexpected pieces of information learned from banding!
July 6: A Brown Creeper was seen again in the same area where one or two have been found through at least early June. It is likely they nested here again this year.
July 5: Summer has been slightly soggy and uneventful. The usual breeding birds are being found, and include suspected nesting by 3 pairs of Ruby-throated Hummingbirds and a pair of Red-headed Woodpeckers. American Woodcock are still being flushed in the banding area. Four pairs of Wood Thrush have completed their first nesting. Two pair were successful (one fledged one chick, the other fledged four) and are both on their second nests (two chicks in one nest, two eggs in the other). The other pair both failed at their first nesting. Of those, one pair now has three chicks (the male has disappeared and the female is raising them alone), and the other pair failed in their second attempt and is now on round three.
Last month's sightings. More Archived sightings are listed below
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Archived sightings
