With just over a week left in the season, the makeup of migrants counted from the waterbird shack has continued to change. Long-tailed Ducks are still being seen in triple-digit totals regularly, and are by far the top species counted with a current total of 20,960, but they no longer dominate each day’s flight quite [...]
Hello all: The banding season official came to a close on October 31. Since our last post on October 22, we added 11 Northern Saw-Whet Owls to our season totals. The biggest push for these birds came on the night of October 24 with 7 owls banded. In total this season we banded: 1 American [...]
Townsend's Solitaire. Harris's Sparrow Highlights: Townsend's Solitaire & Harris's Sparrow The season's second Townsend's Solitaire was seen on Oct. 20 and the second Harris's Sparrow of the season was seen on Oct. 25-26. As is typical this time of the year, the diversity is really winding down. There are [...]
