Fall 2019 summary

The Fall 2019 banding season featured a reduced effort due to lack of availability of banders-in-charge, but the banding days were spread evenly across the season so we sampled most of the migration period. Migration seemed to be running ‘late’, with decent numbers of migratory species around into the first week of November, after we were closed. Hurricane Dorian which hit the northern Bahamas on Labor Day Weekend had no effect on our site. Fronts were weak and there was no temperature/humidity drop before we closed on October 27. Still, there were some good movements of birds in October, especially Oct 10 and 17. This is the typical period for our biggest days.

The only unusual species captured in 2019 was our second Seaside sparrow, banded on Sept 17. This immature bird is likely a member of the migratory subspecies that winters along the coast of northeastern Florida, and overshoots are an annual occurrence in our area in mid-September. The last Seaside sparrow banded at CFBS was captured on 12 Sep 2005.

Total: 1376 birds of 49 species

1. American redstart-246
2. Ovenbird-213
3. Black-throated blue warbler-175
4. Worm-eating warbler-105
5. Common yellowthroat-100
6. Gray catbird-99
7. Black & white warbler-78
8. Red-eyed vireo-53
9. Northern waterthrush-46
10. Northern parula-36
11. Swainson’s warbler-29
12. Blue-gray gnatcatcher-21
13. White-eyed vireo-19
14. Painted bunting-19
15. Prairie warbler-15
16. Northern cardinal-15
17. Indigo bunting-13
18. Swainson’s thrush-11
19. Magnolia warbler-8
20. Gray-cheeked thrush-7
21. Chuck-will’s widow-6
22. Wood thrush-6
23. Traill’s flycatcher-5
24. Western palm warbler-5
25. Hooded warbler-5
26. Veery-4
27. Great crested flycatcher-3
28. Bay-breasted warbler-3
29. Prothonotary warbler-3
30. Sharp-shinned hawk-2
31. Cooper’s hawk-2
32. Common ground-dove-2
33. Yellow-billed cuckoo-2
34. Least flycatcher-2
35. Tennessee warbler-2
36. Chestnut-sided warbler-2
37. Cape May warbler-2
38. Eastern whip-poor will-1
39. Eastern wood-pewee-1
40. Acadian flycatcher-1
41. Blue jay-1
42. Philadelphia vireo-1
43. Blue-winged warbler-1
44. Yellow-throated warbler-1
45. Kentucky warbler-1
46. Canada warbler-1
47. Yellow-breasted chat-1
48. Seaside sparrow-1
49. Rose-breasted grosbeak-1