A Decent Start to December

How are we already into December? Now we listen and look for the last migrants of the season to arrive. We ar already hearing some Goldfinches and Waxwing, but we are still looking for Yellow-rumped Warblers. The first two are in and hoping we can get some Yellow-rumps.

Fog was predicted. Not much of anything. Our first bird was a Carolina Wren. We had 2 recaptures today.



The North Shore Festival was going to be a thing but circumstances had us cancel that event. Everyone was told about the canceling...except for the tour leader. Angela arrived and got to at least release one of the Wrens.



A Western Palm Warbler hit Net 20 just after dawn to give us some hopes for more migrants. However, they would be the only ones today that we processed. We did see a Black-and-White Warbler and our Yellow-bellied Sapsucker arrived later in the day near the marsh. Which is now full of white sand right now.



Two Northern Cardinals were brought in today. One new female and one recatptured male.



One thing that happens after some bad storms and hurricanes. The landscape is scraped clear heading toward the lake. Andrew made it down to a newly changed river bend and walked over soft ground and got to see the Window on the Lake for the first time since last Spring.



Our second Wren gets a close up before release.



Several House Wrens were teasing us through the day. A couple of us saw them flying just along the lanes and under certain nets. We finally got one recap.



Our second Western Palm Warbler was found as we closed nets at Net 21 and lead us to the end of our day.



Looking forward to cooler weather next weekend and maybe we can get a few interesting new birds.

Today's Totals

Birds Processed	New	Recaptured	Total
Northern Cardinal	1	2	3
Western Palm Warbler	2	0	2
House Wren	0	1	1
Carolina Wren	0	2	2
Totals	3	5	8

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Next (planned) Banding Day: Sunday, December 11th.
All nets will be opened by 6:40 A.M.