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Saturday, May 18th, 2002 the Riveredge Bird Club held its 14th
Annual Birdathon/Bandathon. The Birdathon portion of the event identified
107 species of birds on the Riveredge property. The Bandathon portion
set a record, capturing and banding 201 birds representing 39 species.
Thanks to Everyone who helped with the birind and banding. It was
certainly a wonderful day to be birding at Riveredge Nature Center.
The forecast Friday was for very cold overnight temperatures including
frost warnings. Saturday was to be cool with rain in the afternoon.
We had to scrape frost off our car to go to Riveredge. Rather than
starting at 5AM we started at 6:30. Due to the cold we checked nets
every 10 minutes in the early morning. The hummingbirds we captured
as well as the warblers and other birds all seemed to be doing well
with the cold weather.
The warblers at the river were often at eye-level, seldom higher
than 20 feet in the trees. I had heard about birding like this,
but never experienced it. At one point Saturday we had 27 birds
in one net (all removed and handled without any harm).
Two Banding Stations
We had enough people to run two banding teams and banded in two
different habitats, one along the bank of Milwaukee River and the
second farther inland near ponds, a stream, and prairies and wet
meadows.
| Only Captured At the River Station |
16 |
| Only Captured At the Inland Station |
16 |
| Both Stations |
7 |
39 species, 201 birds!
| Species |
River |
Inland |
Number of Bandathons With This Species |
| Downy Woodpecker |
|
1 |
7 |
| Ruby-throated Hummingbird |
1 |
1 |
5 |
| Yellow-bellied Flycatcher |
|
1 |
1 |
| Traill's Flycatcher (alder/willow) |
|
2 |
3 |
| Least Flycatcher |
2 |
1 |
6 |
| Brown-Headed Cowbird |
|
1 |
7 |
| Baltimore Oriole |
|
3 |
2 |
| American Goldfinch |
1 |
15 |
7 |
| Chipping Sparrow |
|
1 |
5 |
| Song Sparrow |
|
6 |
10 |
| Northern Cardinal |
|
1 |
8 |
| Rose-breasted Grosbeak |
|
4 |
4 |
| Indigo Bunting |
|
1 |
6 |
| Tree Swallow |
|
1 |
5 |
| Blue-headed Vireo |
|
2 |
1 |
| Black-and-White Warbler |
5 |
|
6 |
| Golden-winged Warbler |
2 |
|
3 |
| Nashville Warbler |
10 |
|
6 |
| Northern Parula |
1 |
|
1 |
| Yellow Warbler |
2 |
|
5 |
| Black-throated Blue Warbler |
2 |
|
1 |
| Unk. Yellow-rumped Warbler |
8 |
|
5 |
| Magnolia Warbler |
31 |
1 |
12 |
| Chestnut-sided Warbler |
14 |
|
8 |
| Bay-breasted Warbler |
2 |
|
4 |
| Blackburnian Warbler |
4 |
|
5 |
| Black-throated Green Warbler |
6 |
|
4 |
| Western Palm Warbler |
13 |
|
6 |
| Ovenbird |
1 |
|
8 |
| Northern Waterthrush |
1 |
1 |
2 |
| Common Yellowthroat |
1 |
8 |
7 |
| Wilson's Warbler |
5 |
|
8 |
| Canada Warbler |
2 |
|
6 |
| American Redstart |
17 |
|
9 |
| Gray Catbird |
|
3 |
13 |
| House Wren |
|
1 |
6 |
| White-breasted Nuthatch |
|
1 |
5 |
| Black-capped Chickadee |
2 |
10 |
12 |
| Ruby-crowned Kinglet |
|
2 |
1 |
New Species not Banded in 13 Previous Bandathons: Black-throated
Blue Warbler, Northern Parula, Yellow-bellied Flycatcher, and Ruby-crowned
Kinglet
Banded After 4pm: Trail's Flycatcher, Yellow-bellied Flycatcher,
House Wren, Northern Cardinal, Tree Swallow, and Chipping Sparrow.
Birds we missed: All the thrushes (Swainson's have been captured
in 7 years, and gray-cheeked in 5 years). Blue-winged and Mourning
Warblers have been captured in 5 bandathons.
Oldest Recaps: Black-capped Chickadee first banded 28Apr1999, WB
Nuthatch banded 13Oct1999, Cardinal banded 2May2000, Brown-headed
Cowbird banded at MAPS 7Jul2000, Song Sparrow Banded and Recapped
at last year's bandathon, Black-capped Chickadee first banded at
MAPS 13Jul2001, Catbird banded at MAPS 3Aug2001.
Last Update:
27 May, 2002
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