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 A beautiful male Bullock's Oriole.
PHOTO BY GINA BARTON |
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Monthly Banding Update
June '08 Report (Gina Barton, Coyote Creek Field Station Manager)- We had a very late and fat Puget Sound White-crowned Sparrow fly in on the 18th! We captured 394 birds of 22 species, with 46 birds/100 net hours. Of the birds we captured, we put bands on 213 of them, while 180 were birds we banded previously. We operated nets on 12 days. Our banding and field station volunteers donated 252 hours of their time.
Other late migrants captured this month were one Yellow Warbler (captured on the 3rd) and four Swainson’s Thrush (two captured on the 7th, one on the 9th, one on the 11th).
Our Brown-headed Cowbird revisited us again on the 21st. We recaptured an After Second Year, male Bullock’s Oriole on the 18th. This bird was banded on June 4, 2006 as an adult male. We captured two dispersing young Orange-crowned Warblers, one on the 7th and one on the 15th. Other highlights this month were three Black-headed Grosbeaks (captured on the 28th), one Western Flycatcher (captured on the 9th), one Northern Rough-winged Swallow (captured on the 18th), three Northern Mockingbirds (one captured on the 11th and two on the 29th), and two California Towhees (captured on the 29th).
Our new species for 2008 was Cliff Swallow. Our most common captures were Song Sparrow (190 birds), Common Yellowthroat (84 birds), Bushtit (42 birds), and Bewick’s Wren (28 birds). |
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 A Cliff Swallow was captured at CCFS in June making it the first of this species for 2008.
PHOTO BY GINA BARTON  Back again! This female Brown-headed Cowbird is a recurring visitor to the field station. She was banded on May 26th, 2006 and was recaptured in April & May of 2007 and recaptured in May & June of 2008.
PHOTO BY RITA COLWELL
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