BANDING REPORT- Neawanna Wetland Preserve
19 August 2001

Method: Up to eight 9m mist nets are placed in mixed Oregon
Crabapple/Twinberry/Spruce along the the upper Neawanna River,
Seaside, Clatsop Co. OR. Captured birds are measured, ringed
with USBBL numbered metal bands and released. Data on time of
capture and side of net captured are also recorded to gain
an understanding of movements through the area.

2001 0819
Neawanna 241
Hours 3
Nets 8
Net*hours 24

Black-capped Chickadee BCCH 3
Orange-crowned Warbler OCWA 1
Wilson's Warbler WIWA 3
Common Yellowthroat COYE 3
Swainson's Thrush SWTH 2
Wrentit WREN 2
Bewick's Wren BEWR 4
Marsh Wren MAWR 3
Song Sparrow SOSP 3
Purple Finch PUFI 1

Recaptures
Black-capped Chickadee BCCH 1
Song Sparrow SOSP 1

new captures 25
total captures 27
diversity 10
birds/(net*hour) 1.1
diversity/(net*hour) 0.4

Notes: Weather was warm and mowtly sunny. Not much obvious
migrant activity, but nice diversity in this morning's catch.
Best birds of the day were a pair of hatch-year WRENTITS.

This week's bird in hand:
http://home.pacifier.com/~neawanna/observatory/wren2001081901.JPG

Further information on the this project is
available at:
http://home.pacifier.com/~neawanna/observatory/observatory.html

--
Mike Patterson Alas, to wear the mantle of Galileo,
Astoria, OR it is not enough to be persecuted
celata at pacifier.com by an unkind establishment,
you must also be right.
---Robert Park
http://www.pacifier.com/~mpatters/bird/bird.html