RRBO completed the first year of banding at Linwood MacDonald on October 31,
2006. Although our original intentions were to continue banding through
December, a family medical emergency, which necessitated my becoming a
care-giver for much of the time, closed RRBO for the winter on Nov. 1st.
Our first "year" was really only slightly more than 6 months. We did
very little banding in June, July and August due to opressive heat and/or
rain.
The breakdown:
April: 6
May: 101
June: 8
July: 56
Aug.:83
Sept. 216
Oct.: 307
New birds banded: 777
Species: 61
The five most common
birds were:
Gray Catbird - 126
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
- 80
White-throated
sparrow - 58
Song-sparrow - 51
Eastern phoebe - 36
We have been
notified of one recovery: a HY song sparrow was reported killed by a cat in
North Carolina in December.
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