Hi All-- With the advent of warmer weather, I have been able to band a few birds. Today, 12 February 2009, I retrapped two Brown Creepers, one banded on 31 October 2008 and the other on 2 November 2008, both at my Northfield home. I doubt there are many creeper recoveries--kind of like needles in the proverbial haystack. Brown Creepers seemed to be attracted to the water feature last fall and I banded 11 of them. So apparently these two spent this chilly winter here. I have seen creepers at the feeding station off and on, occasionally feeding on the ground, apparently on bits of suet dropped by the woodpeckers and chickadees.
Dan -- Dan or Erika Tallman Northfield, Minnesota http://danerika.googlepages.com/home http://picasaweb.google.com/danerika [email protected] ".... the best shod travel with wet feet" "Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes ...."--Thoreau ---- Join or Leave mou-net:http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives:http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
