A few decades ago I had a group of students monitoring the survival of
chickadees. We used the McGowan Woods, opposite the office buildings at the
game farm. It is isolated from any adjacent forest, and I hoped that movement
in or out would be minimal. We tried to do a weekly census as part of our
monitoring. Over a two week span our numbers doubled, long after the breeding
season, which sort of screwed up our effort to count survival. We later learned
that there was a day when Braddoch Bay, if my memory serves me, banded 500
chickadees in a day. I totally agree with Andrea, chickadees are truly
obnoxious to get out of a net. They bite constantly, never hold still, and
constantly grab new parts of the net. Banding 100+ chickadees in a day would be
a challenge to one's dedication.
I wonder what the conditions were during the breeding season that led to so
many chickadees?
John
On Monday, April 17, 2023 at 07:08:32 AM EDT, Geo Kloppel
<geoklop...@gmail.com> wrote:
This 2005 Chickadee Irruption post from our old friend Jeff Wells is also fun:
https://www.borealbirds.org/blog/2005/09/30/chickadee-irruption
-Geo
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