B.Max Gotz
Box 291
Whistler, BC
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> ROCKY POINT NOTES, VOLUME 1, NUMBER 9 31 DECEMBER 1997
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> Editor: Michael G. Shepard, 306-825 Cook Street, Victoria, B.C. V8V
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> mgs at islandnet.com (250) 380-9195
>
> Here is the last issue of the year. There have been a few surveys
done at
> Rocky Point since the fall banding season ended in mid-October.
The two
> highlights were a Barn Owls seen by David Allinson on 20 October
and an
> immature Sabine's Gull observed on 30 November by Alan MacLeod and
Ron
> Satterfield.
>
> CORRECTION: The Gyrfalcon at Rocky Point in mid-October was seen on
October
> 19, not October 18, as reported in volume1, number 8 of "Rocky
Point Notes".
>
> SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 1997 ROCKY POINT RECAPTURES OF BIRDS BANDED IN
1995 OR EARLIER
> Species Band Number Banding Date Age/Sex Recapture Date
> COYE 1990-53996 7 July 1995 HY U 5 September 1997
> Had not been seen since banding, recaptured as a moulting AHY M.
>
> SOSP 1451-62576 23 October 1994 HY U 6 October 1997
> Has returned each fall in September or October, probably
overwinters (one
> recapture in March 1995).
>
> SPTO 972-37746 3 December 1994 HY M 12 October 1997
> Not seen in the fall of 1995, but recaptured on 3 October 1996.
>
> ANOTHER RECAPTURE OF NOTE
> We have never before captured a Golden-crowned Kinglet banded in a
previous
> year. On 4 October, we caught a female that had been banded on 5
October 1996.
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>