Since our last post, things have slowed down a little bit here in the owl banding world. While the birds are still showing up, they are not keeping us as busy as last week. The weather this past week also affected our banding ability and kept us closed for a couple of days. While [...]
Since our last blog post, we have been quite busy in the owl banding world. I had stated in the previous blog that we were hoping the change in weather at the start of this week would bring us some birds, and it definitely did that. For starters, let's talk about the Northern Saw-whet [...]
Since our last post, things have been a little slower. Unfortunately, on the night of Sept. 21, we were closed all night due to strong winds. The night of Sept. 22 only saw us with one Northern Saw-whet Owl. This bird came right before closing early in the morning of Sept. 23. We were [...]
Dana with her first Northern Saw-whet Owl. Hello all. We're just finishing up our first week of the 2022 fall owl banding season. Let us take a minute and introduce you to the fall 2022 owl banders. Tori Steely is returning for a third fall season of owl banding here at the [...]
A Barred Owl banded in the fall of 2018 at WPBO. Well, this week's weather consisted of long cold nights of wet and windy weather, and we only banded one Barred Owl. The last few nights of the season look decent for owl migration, so we'll see what happens. ~ Tim Baerwald [...]
The night of the 14th featured a nice flight with 11 Northern Saw-whet Owls and a Long-eared Owl banded. Since then, likely due to wet and windy conditions, we have only banded 10 more owls, peaking with five Northern Saw-whet Owls on the night of the 18th and three Northern Saw-whet Owls and one [...]
The night of the sixth featured the second-largest flight of the season with 12 Northern Saw-whet Owls banded! Since then (likely due to wet weather conditions), we have banded only nine more Northern Saw-whet Owls. The local amphibians have been enjoying the wet woods. ~ Tim Baerwald and Byron de-Yampert You can [...]
Northern Saw-whet Owl This week was a bit of a rollercoaster with a night where we banded zero owls followed by a night where we banded 15 Northern Saw-whet Owls! Other notes of interest include having recaptures of two Northern Saw-whet Owls previously banded here in 2019! The first was banded during [...]
The fall owl banding began the night of Sept. 15 with four Northern Saw-whet Owls banded — a nice start to the season. Since then, only two Northern Saw-whet Owls have been banded, for a first week total of six. This can likely be attributed to the south winds that have been prevalent the [...]
The owl banding season is coming to a close, and it started to feel like it this week. Nighttime temperatures dropped below freezing multiple times, and the rain that kept nets closed earlier this month has begun to turn to snow and sleet. The owls are still moving, but migration here at the Point [...]
