BANDING REPORT- Neawanna Wetland Preserve
03-29-2003

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.


2003 3/29
Neawanna 88
Hours 4
Nets 8
Net*hours 32

Rufous Hummingbird RUHU 6
Black-capped Chickadee BCCH 1
Common Bushtit BUSH 1
Golden-crowned Kinglet GCKI 1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet RCKI 2
Orange-crowned Warbler OCWA 2
Fox Sparrow FOSP 2

Recaptures
Black-capped Chickadee BCCH 2
Common Bushtit BUSH 2
Ruby-crowned Kinglet RCKI 1
American Robin AMRO 1
Bewick's Wren BEWR 1
Fox Sparrow FOSP 1
Song Sparrow SOSP 1

new captures 15
total captures 24
diversity 13
birds/(net*hour) 0.75
diversity/(net*hour) 0.4

Notes: It was T-shirt weather at the Neawanna Banding Station this
morning, 55?F by 08:00 and over 60? before we left. The first ORANGE-
CROWNED WARBLERS of the season, almost certainly migrants, were among
the day's captures. Both were lutescens type. We also saw the first
territorial BROWN-HEADED COWBIRD of the spring.

This week in-hand:
http://home.pacifier.com/~neawanna/observatory/thisweekinhand/ocwa20030329.JPG

and in the "no, it's not a VERDIN" department:
http://home.pacifier.com/~neawanna/observatory/thisweekinhand/bush2003032902.JPG

http://home.pacifier.com/~neawanna/observatory/observatory.html

--
Mike Patterson
Astoria, OR
celata at pacifier.com

A child who becomes acquainted with the birds about him
hears every sound and puzzles out its meaning with a cleverness
that amazes those with ears who hear not.

-Neltje Blanchan

http://www.pacifier.com/~mpatters/bird/bird.html