Well, we definitely got a new wave of birds with the front that passed yesterday but we weren’t completely slammed. The overnight rain was patchy and a lot of it was north of us along the coast, potentially blocking migrants from reaching us. We still had a good diversity of captures today, with 48 birds representing 15 species. Nothing new for the season, which is surprising with an influx of new migrants in early October. Our 1,000th bird of the season was this female Black & white warbler.
We usually hit this milestone within a few days either side of this date so we are on pace numbers-wise, although we are missing some of our scarce but regular additional species so far such as Hooded and Chestnut-sided warblers.
Overall Top 10 species as of today:
- Ovenbird: 173
- American redstart: 170
- Worm-eating warbler: 151
- Black & white warbler: 117
- Black-throated blue warbler: 59
- Common yellowthroat: 54
- Northern waterthrush: 52
- Prairie warbler: 44
- Northern parula: 40
- Swainson’s warbler: 23 (tie)
- Blue-gray gnatcatcher: 23 (tie)
Today’s totals:
| SPECIES | NEW | RETURN | RECAP |
| White-eyed vireo | 1 | – | – |
| Red-eyed vireo | 1 | – | – |
| Veery | 1 | – | – |
| Swainson’s thrush | 1 | – | – |
| Blue-gray gnatcatcher | 1 | – | – |
| Northern parula | 1 | – | – |
| Prairie warbler | 2 | – | – |
| American redstart | 7 | – | – |
| Black-throated blue warbler | 4 | – | – |
| Black & white warbler | 3 | – | 1 |
| Northern waterthrush | 1 | – | – |
| Ovenbird | 8 | – | 1 |
| Swainson’s warbler | 1 | – | – |
| Worn-eating warbler | 7 | – | 2 |
| Common yellowthroat | 9 | – | – |
| # BIRDS CAPTURED | # SPECIES | # NETS | NET HOURS | CAPTURE RATE (BIRDS/100NH) | |
| DAILY TOTAL | 48 | 15 | 23 | 166 | 31.33 |
| SEASON TOTAL | 1000 | 36 | 23 | 5541.8 | 20.25 |