Hi All-- I have been traveling most of October and have been away for the last four days. I was surprised to band 6 Black-capped Chickadees today. Since I have an almost constant banding effort underway at home, I wonder where these birds came from. Jansen reports chickadee migrations along the Superior shore, but there is no banding data to support chickadee migrations.
I also caught 5 White-breasted Nuthatches. Two of these were already banded (8 October 2006 and 26 March 2007). I would have assumed that I had already banded my local nuthatches. Best bird was this very partically albino Downy Woodpecker: http://www.northern.edu/tallmand/dat/misc/dowoalbino.jpg dan -- Dan or Erika Tallman Northfield, Minnesota http://danerika.googlepages.com/home danerika at gmail.com ".... the best shod travel with wet feet" "Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes ...."--Thoreau -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://moumn.org/pipermail/mou-net_moumn.org/attachments/20071027/0b4c35e1/attachment.html