[cayugabirds-l] Northern Saw-whet Owl banding

2018-12-29 Thread John Confer
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

[cayugabirds-l] Northern Saw-whet Owl banding

2018-10-01 Thread John Confer
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