Daily report – Friday, 5/20 – Appledore Island Migration Station

Greetings all!

Friday seems like a long time ago. So much so that I don’t remember a lot of details other than that we had birds. With a small-ish staff, we were only able to run four or five nets for a big chunk of the day — we opened the apple tree net at 05:10, shut it down at 05:45, and never re-opened — but we still banded 157 birds with a nice variety of species.

Some highlights:

Liz was delighted to band her first Tree Swallow.
Lauren was delighted to band her first Bay-breasted Warbler.
Katherine was delighted to release an Orchard Oriole.
Despite the busy-ness of the day, Katherine was able to process all but one of the 65-ish MARS (Mobile Avian Recording Studio) birds that were captured.
Day Two of Dave Adrien’s visit meant more sightings for the day’s list and more nice photos for the daily report.

Cheers from Liz, Bill, Lauren, and Katherine.

Solitary Sandpiper; photo courtesy of Dave Adrien

Short-billed Dowitchers; photo courtesy of Dave Adrien

Northern Cardinal with jewelry; photo courtesy of Dave Adrien

*Alert readers may note that we didn’t band an Orchard Oriole on Friday. The picture should have been posted on Thursday but I forgot.

Species	Code	Number
Tree Swallow	TRES	1
Veery	VEER	1
Swainson's Thrush	SWTH	4
Gray Catbird	GRCA	6
Ovenbird	OVEN	3
Northern Waterthrush	NOWA	10
Black-and-white Warbler	BAWW	13
Nashville Warbler	NAWA	1
Common Yellowthroat	COYE	38
American Redstart	AMRE	11
Northern Parula	NOPA	6
Magnolia Warbler	MAWA	22
Bay-breasted Warbler	BBWA	1
Yellow Warbler	YEWA	3
Chestnut-sided Warbler	CSWA	7
Blackpoll Warbler	BLPW	4
Black-throated Blue Warbler	BTBW	7
Black-throated Green Warbler	BTNW	1
Canada Warbler	CAWA	3
Wilson's Warbler	WIWA	1
Lincoln's Sparrow	LISP	2
Swamp Sparrow	SWSP	5
White-throated Sparrow	WTSP	6
Rose-breasted Grosbeak	RBGR	1
Total banded:		157

Banding list for May 20, 2016