The season in review. We worked 43 nights from 9/18 to 11/25. Every night after that into last week was unsafe for netting so we quit. That was sad as owls continued to move through the area. We've yet to determine an end date for the fall migration; our latest was 11/28 a few years ago.
We had banded 56 saw-whets, 1 Screech Owl, had 1 banded by John Confer two years ago, one of ours visit a VA station and 1 miss. Strangely we had more than the norm of ASY birds at 33% while HYs were at 59%, SYs very low at 7% and 1 AHY. Females accounted for 82%, Unknown sex for 14% and the usual paucity of males who tend to stick closer to breeding territory. Here's the 2014 Saw-whet Rogue's Gallery Review; a note, in order to not stress the owls with white light or flash we operate under red and took the majority of the photos with available light. https://www.flickr.com/ /kestrel_ha /sets/72157648276459800/ -- John and Sue Gregoire Field Ornithologists Kestrel Haven Avian Migration Observatory 5373 Fitzgerald Road Burdett,NY 14818-9626 N 42 26.611' W 76 45.492' Website: http://www.empacc.net/~kestrelhaven/ "Conserve and Create Habitat" -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
