April Showers...They are Coming

Rain was coming. However, it is April migration and we had to head out with some hopes of getting some birds before the weather degraded. We did close up a little early as the radars showed storms pushing in from the West.

Gray Catbirds are very restless today and we ended up with 6 of them.



Carolina Wrens are getting restless, too. Breeding is gearing up and they are begin to emerge from the edge of the trees.



A new Ovenbird was heading home and we greeted it with some new jewlery.



Northern Waterthrushes are right on time heading back themselves. We got 2 today.



Northern Cardinals are now the most vocal at dawn and we think we will get a bunch of them, but they seem to be more busy building nests and laying eggs. Like this female with a very evident brood patch.



Last weekend, Lynn found some Otters. Did not say she had an adult with a couple of babies! Here is one of them from last week.



Be sure to check the blog before heading out next Sunday as it might be a raining day and we might have to ditch.

Today's Totals

Birds Processed	New	Recaptured	Total
Carolina Wren	0	2	2
Ovenbird	1	0	1
Gray Catbird	4	2	6
Northern Waterthrush	2	0	2
Northern Cardinal	0	1	1
Totals	7	5	12

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Next (planned) Banding Day: Sunday, April 16th.
All nets will be opened by 6:30 A.M.