Most of yesterday’s recaptures moved out and along with them we had a change in species as new birds came in. No white-eyed vireos around today, but Common yellowthroats were common and overhead we had dozens of FOS Western palm warblers. These guys didn’t settle in so we didn’t catch any; this is pretty typical for our site. We will catch a few by the end of the season, but our banding totals underestimate how many Western palms are really around. They do tend to like foraging on the ground in open areas, away from where the nets are.
Common yellowthroats were the bird of the day, especially first thing in the morning. Once again there were thunderstorms over Miami last night, but they had cleared by morning, leaving us with more still, clear weather, although it wasn’t quite as oppressively humid as before. We’ll take anything for a break! We were treated to some diversity later in the morning as the yellowthroat party died down and ended with 26 new captures and only 3 recaptures. All were warblers.
| SPECIES | NEW | RETURN | RECAP |
| Northern parula | 1 | – | – |
| Magnolia warbler | 1 | – | – |
| American redstart | 6 | – | 1 |
| Black-throated blue warbler | 3 | – | – |
| Black-and-white warbler | 3 | – | – |
| Swainson’s warbler | 1 | – | – |
| Ovenbird | 1 | – | 1 |
| Worm-eating warbler | 1 | – | 1 |
| Common yellowthroat | 9 | – | – |
| # BIRDS CAPTURED | # SPECIES | # NETS | NET HOURS | CAPTURE RATE (BIRDS/100NH) | |
| DAILY TOTAL | 26 | 9 | 23 | 139 | 20.86 |
| SEASON TOTAL | 901 | 35 | 23 | 5006.3 | 20.19 |