[cayugabirds-l] Northern Saw-whet Owl banding
Hammond Hill Owls (HHOWLS) had another successful year of banding. We banded on 16 nights, almost every night with tolerable to good wind conditions and temperatures above freezing from 1 October until 6 November. This provided 502 net hours and 0.2 birds per net hour. We had 116 assistant-nights with 42 people who made more than one trip. Plus, we had about 30 brief visitors with the Cayuga Bird Club trip. I would do the banding for either the data on migratory saw-whets and what we might learn from it. Or, the great pleasure in the personal interactions among all of us. The best part is the new and renewed friendships that come from working to our best to process the birds safely and record the data accurately. Put the two aspects together, and you have an awesome experience. thanks to all who helped, toot toot toot John Confer -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Northern Saw-whet Owl banding
HI Folks, I am continuing my Northern Saw-whet Owl banding project for this the tenth year. Our location is about 3 miles southeast of Slaterville Springs at 651 Hammond Hill Rd, referred to as HHOWLS. Last year we banded 137 owls. This year after two nights at the start of migration we have captured one saw-whet and one screech. Banding stations to the north of us have been banding for a couple weeks and report higher than average catch rates. I will band owls during the interval from now until after mid-November. Inappropriate weather occurs on about half to two-thirds of those nights so we only band on about 20 nights. If you would like to participate as a Banding Assistant please contact me at . Banding Assistants should try to come out for a specific night of the week throughout the banding season, except, of course, on those nights when the weather is bad. The number of signups for this year provides very unequal numbers for different days. I may need to ask people if they could change. One-time-only visitors must make prior arrangement for a specific night. as the saw-whet says toot toot toot John Confer -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
