The Nemesis Bird » banding http://www.nemesisbird.com birding in s.e. Pennsylvania Thu, 01 Jul 2010 20:24:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 They can’t all spend the night.. http://www.nemesisbird.com/2009/11/they-cant-all-spend-the-night/ http://www.nemesisbird.com/2009/11/they-cant-all-spend-the-night/#comments Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:26:26 +0000 Drew http://www.nemesisbird.com/?p=1056 And so we learned with a recent saw-whet that we attempted to track. She was released from the banding station at around 10pm and we tracked her for several hours but by 3 am she was gone, presumably having flown to the south out of range of our equipment.

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This is a picture of Feist, another owl that left without giving us much time to track it. We were able to get one days roost data before the weekend, and when we came back, she was gone.

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]]> http://www.nemesisbird.com/2009/11/they-cant-all-spend-the-night/feed/ 0 Eastern Screech Owl http://www.nemesisbird.com/2009/10/eastern-screech-owl/ http://www.nemesisbird.com/2009/10/eastern-screech-owl/#comments Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:04:02 +0000 Drew http://www.nemesisbird.com/?p=996 EASO KG 102009

This is one of the eastern screech owls we have caught at the saw-whet banding operations. There are usually one or two that get curious enough each year to get caught in the nets.

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