Current Banding Highlights/Reports
May 21
Last night's migration brought a few new species to an
otherwise slow banding week. Among them, a female Canada
warbler, black and white, mourning, chestnut-sided, yellow,
and magnolia warblers; a white-crowned sparrow, and a Savannah
Sparrow (a new species for RRBO).
May 19
This morning's banding session was cut short by high winds,
but we managed to band a more typical Brewster's Warbler
before closing. This bird was
captured in the same field and net as the golden-winged
warbler last May. We haven't seen
golden-winged warblers yet, just blue-wingeds, including a few
hybrids with yellow wing bars. This was the first that
displayed the more typical "Brewster's" plumage (see the post
below).
May 15
After a slow week with northern winds and cool temps, winds
shifted and Thursday morning's banding resulted in some nice
birds, including a mourning warbler and a chestnut-sided
warbler.
May 6
A male blue-winged warbler caught on May 6 displays large
yellow wing bars typically found in blue-winged/golden winged
hybrids - but this bird does not have any of the other plumage
features generally appearing in Brewster's or Lawrence's hybrids.
The same bird was recaptured the
following day, May 7, in the same net and only inches from another
blue-winged warbler, this one with normal white wing bars.
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