…we’ll take it! A northeast wind set in today and built up as the morning progressed, making the air feel a tad drier and cooler. We banded close to the same amount of birds as yesterday of similar species, but the Chestnut-sided warbler stayed out of the nets although he was foraging right next to the banding tent for a bit. A Thick-billed vireo also did a quick fly-by of the tent, calling as he went, but he was moving quickly and was not seen again. However, there was an abundance of photogenic birds in the hand today.
The big mass of birds at the Florida-Georgia state line last night had made it halfway down the peninsula by early morning today and were showing up on Tampa and Melbourne radar. They should be here by tomorrow, but this strong northeasterly wind may shove the bulk of the migrants inland away from Cape Florida. If today is any indicator, this latest push will have a lot of Black-throated blue warblers in it but if we’re lucky some Wood thrush and Bay-breasted warblers will be in the mix. We are 53 birds short of 2,000 for the season, so we will see what we get!
| SPECIES | NEW | RETURN | RECAP |
| Common ground-dove | 1 | – | – |
| Gray-cheeked thrush | 1 | – | – |
| Red-eyed vireo | 1 | – | – |
| White-eyed vireo | 1 | – | – |
| Gray catbird | 5 | – | – |
| Northern parula | 1 | – | – |
| Black & white warbler | 4 | – | 1 |
| American redstart | 6 | – | 1 |
| Black-throated blue warbler | 21 | – | 1 |
| Worm-eating warbler | – | – | 1 |
| Ovenbird | 2 | – | – |
| Northern waterthrush | 1 | – | – |
| Northern cardinal | – | – | 1 |
| Painted bunting | 2 | – | – |
| # BIRDS CAPTURED | # SPECIES | # NETS | NET HOURS | CAPTURE RATE (BIRDS/100NH) | |
| DAILY TOTAL | 46 | 12 | 23 | 135 | 37.78 |
| SEASON TOTAL | 1947 | 48 | 23 | 7874.8 | 28.26 |