The banding station opened on August 16 with 3 birds captured while the nets were set up. Since then there has been a steady stream of migrants heading down through south Florida, with American redstarts and Black-and-white warblers among the most abundant. Rainy overnight weather in recent days has intercepted the southbound migrants, and most of our captures have been very fat. They will stay here and wait for better weather before continuing on south. Oddly, as a much-anticipated tropical wave approached us and finally made tropical depression status south of Key West, the weather today was the sunniest it has been all week. 153 birds banded so far!