I awoke this morning to the song a Winter Wren outside the bedroom window. Its
first song was a short version of normal song but was followed by several bouts
of typical, long song. In the middle of one of those songs, a Carolina Wren
piped up with its trilling song. Neither bird is a resident for us, and I
wished them well on their way south.
Speaking of migration, we banded two Saw-whets at John Confer’s station last
night, in spite of a light southerly breeze. One of them was a hatch year bird,
only the second (or third?) of 28 this year. It was obviously a bad year for
voles up north. Most of the birds banded this year have been second year birds
(and later). The vast majority of the birds caught last year were hatch year so
the second year birds this year are the survivors.
Bob McGuire
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