tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32400980445289099622024-03-18T21:35:00.254-07:00Yukon Bird ObservatoriesYukon Bird Observatorieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01097773125093983846noreply@blogger.comBlogger118125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3240098044528909962.post-68771612183802679422016-09-22T14:04:00.000-07:002016-09-22T14:05:22.796-07:00Teslin Lake update - September 20, 2016<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">There was so little happening that we had time for a fiesta at the banding table!!</td></tr>
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The mid-September period was really a quiet one. We had
very few sightings of interest and banding was slow as well. In fact, it felt
like October with leafs falling and the forest all quiet.
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cameron Eckert (L) and Boris Dobrowolsky (R) scanning the lake</td></tr>
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In spite of the quiet, there were a few highlights. One
of them was a high-flying southbound <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Northern
Hawk Owl</b> on Sep 13 and on the same day we finally saw our first <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jaeger</b> of the season. Unfortunately the
views were distant and brief so we couldn't determine the species. Likely the
same bird gave nice views on Sep 16 and was identified as a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Parasitic Jaeger</b>. The season 1st <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Glaucous Gull</b>, a juvenile, landed
briefly on the sandbar on Sep 15 and the season 1st <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Snow Geese</b>, a flock of 74, gave excellent views to an unusually
numerous crowd of observers on Sep 18. The first two <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Swans</b> flew high overhead the same day but could not be identified
to a species. There wasn't much action with birds flying by. A few to a few
tens of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">raptors</b> were seen most days
and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Lapland Longspurs</b> would zip by
in ones and twos per morning. The only higher counts were made of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">White-winged Crossbill</b> (151 on Sep 16)
and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">American Robin</b> (430 on Sep 17).</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Merlin showing a Raven who is the king of the airspace at the tip</td></tr>
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We banded only 209 birds during this period. An <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">American Pipit</b> on Sep 12 was a season
1st as was a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Common Redpoll</b> on Sep
20. Two young male <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Golden-crowned
Kinglets</b> were a nice treat on Sep 18. The period top five was <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Dark-eyed Junco</b> 66, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Yellow-rumped Warbler</b> 30, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Ruby-crowned Kinglet</b> 21, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Orange-crowned Warbler</b> 17 and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Boreal Chickadee</b> 16. The current season
top five is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Alder Flycatcher</b> 498, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Yellow Warbler</b> 449, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Orange-crowned Warbler</b> 359, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Yellow-rumped Warbler</b> 279 and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Dark-eyed Junco</b> 199. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The banding totals
as of September 20th</b> (the number in brackets indicates the number banded
since the last blog entry):</div>
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Sharp-shinned Hawk - 10 (2)</div>
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Merlin - 1 </div>
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Least Sandpiper - 1 </div>
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Spotted Sandpiper - 1</div>
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Wilson's Snipe - 1 </div>
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Belted Kingfisher - 4 </div>
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Downy Woodpecker - 4 </div>
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Northern Flicker - 3</div>
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Olive-sided Flycatcher - 1 </div>
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Western Wood-Pewee - 3 </div>
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Yellow-bellied Flycatcher - 16 </div>
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Alder Flycatcher - 498 (4)</div>
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Least Flycatcher - 7 </div>
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Hammond's Flycatcher - 19 (1)</div>
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Western Flycatcher - 1 </div>
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Say's Phoebe - 2 </div>
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Warbling Vireo - 24 (1)</div>
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Black-capped Chickadee - 22 (9)</div>
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Boreal Chickadee - 38 (15)</div>
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Red-breasted Nuthatch - 3 </div>
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Golden-crowned Kinglet - 3 (2)</div>
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Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 71 (21)</div>
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Townsend's Solitaire - 2 </div>
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Gray-cheeked Thrush - 8 (1)</div>
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Swainson's Thrush - 82 (2)</div>
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Hermit Thrush - 4 (3)</div>
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American Robin - 3 </div>
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America Pipit - 2 (2)</div>
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Tennessee Warbler - 13 </div>
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Orange-crowned Warbler - 359 (17)</div>
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Yellow Warbler - 449 (6)</div>
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Yellow-rumped Warbler - 279 (30)</div>
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Blackpoll Warbler - 134 (4)</div>
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Townsend's Warbler - 2 </div>
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American Redstart - 15 </div>
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Northern Waterthrush - 34 </div>
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Common Yellowthroat - 57 (6)</div>
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Wilson's Warbler - 170 (7)</div>
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American Tree Sparrow - 17 (4)</div>
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Chipping Sparrow - 31 </div>
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Fox Sparrow - 9 (3)</div>
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White-crowned Sparrow - 15 </div>
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Dark-eyed Junco - 199 (66)</div>
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Savannah Sparrow - 17 (1)</div>
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Lincoln's Sparrow - 12 (1)</div>
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Song Sparrow - 1</div>
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Rusty Blackbird - 5 </div>
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White-winged Crossbill - 46 </div>
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Common Redpoll - 1 (1)</div>
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Pine Siskin - 3 </div>
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= 2702 (209) birds of 50 (2) species</div>
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<br />Yukon Bird Observatorieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01097773125093983846noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3240098044528909962.post-5376913051387286412016-09-17T18:18:00.002-07:002016-09-17T18:18:37.870-07:00Teslin Lake update - September 10, 2016<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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The first ten days of September offered a lot of exciting
birding and banding. Pretty much every day there were sightings of interest and
good southward movement of various species. The main movement of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Greater White-fronted Geese</b> happened on
Sep 1 when we tallied over 1600 of them, actually a low number for a peak for
them. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Swainson's Hawk</b> was seen that day. The first signs of raptor
migration occured during the next two days with a few tens of both <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sharp-shinned</b> and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Harlan's Hawks</b> seen. More impressive was the flight of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Yellow-rumped Warblers</b> on Sep 3 with
225 of them identified and a further over a thousand unidentified passerines
counted flying past TLBO. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Lapland
Longspur</b> and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Three-toed Woodpecker</b>
that day were both new for the season. On Sep 4 the season firsts <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sanderling</b> and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Long-billed Dowitcher</b> were noticed while a group of three <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Golden-crowned Kinglets</b> at the tip was
unusual. The same day we counted 75 <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Rusty
Blackbirds</b>. On Sep 5 we had two season firsts - <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Hairy Woodpecker</b> and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Black-billed
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A group of Harlequin Ducks, an uncommon sight at TLBO</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Juvenile Sharp-tailed Sandpiper - a new species for TLBO!</td></tr>
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In the other end of the migration spectrum, a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Bank Swallow</b> on Sep 6 was quite late and likely the last sighting
of the season. Also that day over 1800 passerines were counted flying by
including 280 <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Varied Thrush</b>, 180 <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Yellow-rumped Warblers</b> and 110 <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">White-winged Crossbills</b> plus plenty of
unidentifieds. The season first <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Golden
Eagle</b> was seen on Sep 7. Sep 8 was the day of quality as first a group of
four <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Harlequin Ducks</b> was spotted
followed by juvenile <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sharp-tailed
Sandpiper</b> - a new species for the observatory! Finally, the period had a
great ending with a really nice flight of over 400 <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sandhill Cranes</b> and over 650 <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">raptors</b>
on Sep 10! The raptors were a good selection of most common Yukon species and
included the following - <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Harlan's Hawk</b>
368, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sharp-shinned Hawk</b> 141, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Northern Harrier</b> 54, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">American Kestrel</b> 38, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Bald Eagle</b> 14, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Osprey</b> 13, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Peregrine Falcon</b>
10, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Merlin</b> 9, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Golden Eagle</b> 8 and the season first <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Rough-legged Hawk</b> one. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The first Hermit Thrush of the season</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We banded three Downy Woodpeckers early September - a high count for us</td></tr>
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Banding was really quite busy as we banded <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>847 birds in nine mornings (Sep 10 was a rain
day). Each of the first four days of the period had over 100 birds banded,
including 207 on the 1st. We had no particularly rare or uncommon birds but two
season firsts - <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Grey-cheeked Thrush</b>
on Sep 1 and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Hermit Thrush</b> on Sep 8.
Both <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Yellow-bellied Flycatcher</b> and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Orange-crowned Warbler</b> reached a new season
record. The period top five was <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Yellow
Warbler</b> 209, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Orange-crowned Warbler</b>
179, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Wilson's Warbler</b> 117, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Dark-eyed Junco</b> 92, and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Alder Flycatcher</b> 78. The current season
top five is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Alder Flycatcher</b> 494, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Yellow Warbler</b> 443, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Orange-crowned Warbler</b> 342, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Yellow-rumped Warbler</b> 249, and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Wilson's Warbler</b> 163.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Orange-crowned Warbler reached a new season record in early September. This bird is a young female showing a rare greater covert molt limit (this info for the bird nerds)</td></tr>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The banding totals
as of September 10th</b> (the number in brackets indicates the number banded
since the last blog entry):</div>
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Sharp-shinned Hawk - 8 (3)</div>
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Merlin - 1 </div>
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Least Sandpiper - 1 </div>
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Spotted Sandpiper - 1</div>
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Wilson's Snipe - 1 </div>
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Belted Kingfisher - 4 </div>
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Downy Woodpecker - 4 (3)</div>
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Northern Flicker - 3</div>
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Olive-sided Flycatcher - 1 </div>
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Western Wood-Pewee - 3 (1)</div>
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Yellow-bellied Flycatcher - 16 (3)</div>
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Alder Flycatcher - 494 (78)</div>
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Least Flycatcher - 7 </div>
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Hammond's Flycatcher - 18 (1)</div>
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Western Flycatcher - 1 </div>
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Say's Phoebe - 2 (1)</div>
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Warbling Vireo - 23 (1)</div>
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Black-capped Chickadee - 13 (1)</div>
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Boreal Chickadee - 23 (18)</div>
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Red-breasted Nuthatch - 3 </div>
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Golden-crowned Kinglet - 1</div>
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Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 50 (30)</div>
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Townsend's Solitaire - 2 </div>
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Gray-cheeked Thrush - 7 (7)</div>
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Swainson's Thrush - 80 (42)</div>
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Hermit Thrush - 1 (1)</div>
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American Robin - 3 </div>
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Tennessee Warbler - 13 (1)</div>
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Orange-crowned Warbler - 342 (179)</div>
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Yellow Warbler - 443 (209)</div>
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Yellow-rumped Warbler - 249 (48)</div>
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Blackpoll Warbler - 130 (22)</div>
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Townsend's Warbler - 2 </div>
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American Redstart - 15 (1)</div>
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Northern Waterthrush - 34 (10)</div>
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Common Yellowthroat - 51 (20)</div>
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Wilson's Warbler - 163 (117)</div>
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American Tree Sparrow - 13 (12)</div>
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Chipping Sparrow - 31 </div>
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Fox Sparrow - 6 (3)</div>
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White-crowned Sparrow - 15 (2)</div>
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Dark-eyed Junco - 133 (92)</div>
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Savannah Sparrow - 16 (4)</div>
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Lincoln's Sparrow - 11 (3)</div>
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Song Sparrow - 1</div>
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Rusty Blackbird - 5 (2)</div>
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White-winged Crossbill - 46 </div>
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Pine Siskin - 3 </div>
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Yukon Bird Observatorieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01097773125093983846noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3240098044528909962.post-29597018982579005682016-09-15T22:13:00.000-07:002016-09-15T22:13:40.487-07:00Teslin Lake update - August 31 2016<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another pastel coloured sunrise. This time view towards southeast and the Aces</td></tr>
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There were a few interesting sightings made during the
last third of August. As common a bird as <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Killdeer</b>
is actually quite rare at TLBO but one juvenile stopped on the shore on Aug 27
and two more on Aug 30. The rest of the interesting sighting were all new
migrants for the season - a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Peregrine
Falcon</b> on Aug 27, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Greater Scaup</b>
on Aug 28, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Harlequin Duck</b> and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Mountain Bluebird</b> on Aug 29, and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Swainson's Hawk</b> on Aug 31. Harlequin
Duck is a very uncommon migrant through the site and the Mountain Bluebirds
were very early. Usually we don't see them before the last week of September.</div>
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Banding was much busier than in the mid-August period
with a total of 690 birds banded including 182 on Aug 21, 132 on Aug 30, and
118 on Aug 31. The two most exciting birds caught were a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Merlin</b> on Aug 21 and a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Wilson's
Snipe</b> on Aug 30. Both were only the fourth individual of their species banded
at TLBO. A <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Townsend's Solitaire</b> on
Aug 27 was the second for the season making this year the only year we've ever
caught more than one. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">American Tree
Sparrow</b> and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Rusty Blackbird</b>,
both on Aug 24, were new banding species for the season too. The period top
five is as follows: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Yellow Warbler</b> 136, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Alder
Flycatcher </b>134, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Orange-crowned
Warbler</b> 129, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Wilson's Warbler</b> 68,
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Yellow-rumped Warbler</b> 61, and the
season top five looks like this: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Alder
Flycatcher</b> 416, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Yellow Warbler</b>
234, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Yellow-rumped Warbler</b> 201, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Orange-crowned Warbler</b> 163, and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Blackpoll Warbler</b> 108.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A Merlin (L) and a Sharp-shinned Hawk caught on the same net round</td></tr>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The banding totals
as of August 31st</b> (the number in brackets indicates the number banded since
the last blog entry):</div>
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Sharp-shinned Hawk - 5 (3)</div>
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Merlin - 1 (1)</div>
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Least Sandpiper - 1 </div>
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Spotted Sandpiper - 1</div>
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Wilson's Snipe - 1 (1)</div>
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Belted Kingfisher - 4 </div>
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Downy Woodpecker - 1 </div>
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Northern Flicker - 3</div>
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Olive-sided Flycatcher - 1 </div>
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Western Wood-Pewee - 2 </div>
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Yellow-bellied Flycatcher - 13 (3)</div>
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Alder Flycatcher - 416 (134)</div>
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Least Flycatcher - 7 (2)</div>
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Hammond's Flycatcher - 17 </div>
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Western Flycatcher - 1 </div>
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Say's Phoebe - 1 </div>
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Warbling Vireo - 22 (3)</div>
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Black-capped Chickadee - 12 (3)</div>
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Boreal Chickadee - 5 (2)</div>
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Red-breasted Nuthatch - 3 </div>
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Golden-crowned Kinglet - 1</div>
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Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 20 (11)</div>
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Townsend's Solitaire - 2 (1)</div>
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Swainson's Thrush - 38 (20)</div>
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American Robin - 3 </div>
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Tennessee Warbler - 12 (3)</div>
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Orange-crowned Warbler - 163 (129)</div>
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Yellow Warbler - 234 (136)</div>
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Yellow-rumped Warbler - 201 (61)</div>
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Blackpoll Warbler - 108 (38)</div>
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Townsend's Warbler - 2 </div>
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American Redstart - 14 (1)</div>
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Northern Waterthrush - 24 (7)</div>
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Common Yellowthroat - 31 (18)</div>
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Wilson's Warbler - 46 (68)</div>
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American Tree Sparrow - 1 (1)</div>
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Chipping Sparrow - 31 (3)</div>
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Fox Sparrow - 3 (3)</div>
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White-crowned Sparrow - 13 (4)</div>
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Dark-eyed Junco - 41 (20)</div>
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Savannah Sparrow - 12 (4)</div>
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Lincoln's Sparrow - 8 (5)</div>
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Song Sparrow - 1</div>
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Rusty Blackbird - 3 (3)</div>
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White-winged Crossbill - 46 (2)</div>
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Pine Siskin - 3 </div>
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Yukon Bird Observatorieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01097773125093983846noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3240098044528909962.post-63398070952823280742016-08-29T21:57:00.000-07:002016-08-29T21:57:34.485-07:00Teslin Lake update - August 20, 2016 <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lovely pastel-coloured sunrise</td></tr>
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The mid-August period was overall a quiet one. Some of
our most expected signs of fall, the season first records, were made of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Greater White-fronted Goose</b> on the 17th
and of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Thayer's Gull</b> on the 19th.
The highlight was the observatory's first, a long overdue, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Great Blue Heron</b> on the 12th when a juvenile bird was spotted
walking on the gull island! On the same day the observatory's 3rd ever <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Western Sandpiper,</b> a juvenile, touched
down briefly.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Great Blue Heron on the gull island</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The observatory's 2nd Song Sparrow was of one of the dark coastal subspecies</td></tr>
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The banding was really quite slow during the period as we
only banded 381 birds. It picked up a little towards the end with 84 birds
banded on the 18th and 66 on the 19th. The top five for mid-August was <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Alder
Flycatcher</b> 194, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Yellow-rumped
Warbler</b> 36, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Blackpoll Warbler</b>
33, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Yellow Warbler</b> 24, and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Orange-crowned Warbler</b> 20. Three new
species for the season were caught: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Western
Wood-Pewee</b>, the observatory's 4th ever banded <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Townsend's Solitaire</b> on the 19th and a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Song Sparrow</b> on the 18th - only the 2nd record for the observatory!
The current season top five is as follows: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Alder
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Warbler</b> 140, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Yellow Warbler</b> 98, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Blackpoll Warbler</b> 70, and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Wilson's Warbler</b> 46. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Brenna Kelly, undoubtedly our keenest volunteer, holding a pair of White-winged Crossbills</td></tr>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The banding totals
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Sharp-shinned Hawk - 2 (1)</div>
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Least Sandpiper - 1 </div>
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Spotted Sandpiper - 1</div>
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Belted Kingfisher - 4 </div>
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Downy Woodpecker - 1 </div>
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Northern Flicker - 3</div>
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Olive-sided Flycatcher - 1 </div>
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Western Wood-Pewee - 2 (2)</div>
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Yellow-bellied Flycatcher - 10 (3)</div>
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Alder Flycatcher - 282 (194)</div>
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Least Flycatcher - 5 (1)</div>
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Hammond's Flycatcher - 17 (2)</div>
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Western Flycatcher - 1 </div>
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Say's Phoebe - 1 </div>
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Warbling Vireo - 19 (7)</div>
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Black-capped Chickadee - 9 (1)</div>
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Boreal Chickadee - 3 (1)</div>
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Red-breasted Nuthatch - 3 </div>
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Golden-crowned Kinglet - 1</div>
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Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 9 (3)</div>
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Townsend's Solitaire - 1 (1)</div>
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Swainson's Thrush - 18 (4)</div>
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American Robin - 3 </div>
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Tennessee Warbler - 9 (2)</div>
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Orange-crowned Warbler - 34 (20)</div>
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Yellow Warbler - 98 (24)</div>
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Yellow-rumped Warbler - 140 (36)</div>
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Blackpoll Warbler - 70 (33)</div>
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Townsend's Warbler - 2 </div>
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American Redstart - 13 (4)</div>
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Northern Waterthrush - 17 (2)</div>
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Common Yellowthroat - 13 (4)</div>
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Wilson's Warbler - 46 (9)</div>
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Chipping Sparrow - 28 (4)</div>
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White-crowned Sparrow - 9 (5)</div>
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Dark-eyed Junco - 21 (3)</div>
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Savannah Sparrow - 8 (6)</div>
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Lincoln's Sparrow - 3 (1)</div>
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Song Sparrow - 1 (1)</div>
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White-winged Crossbill - 44 (6)</div>
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Pine Siskin - 3 (1)</div>
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Yukon Bird Observatorieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01097773125093983846noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3240098044528909962.post-49786049920104199342016-08-15T22:35:00.000-07:002016-08-15T22:35:35.247-07:00Teslin Lake update - August 10, 2016<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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The first ten days of August offered some warm
temperatures and sunshine combined with pretty mediocre banding. However, we
had highlights too biggest one of which was a juvenile <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Northern Rough-winged Swallow </b>on the 4th that flew a couple of
loops around the creek mouth offering great binocular views! Unfortunately no
photos were obtained of this exciting first record for TLBO.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Juvenile American Golden-Plover</td></tr>
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Other sightings of interest included a juvenile <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">American Golden-Plover</b> and two early <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Say's Phoebes</b> on the 3rd, the first
good count (55) of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Red-necked Grebes</b>
on the 4th, three <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Red-breasted
Nuthatches</b> on the 5th, and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Red-necked
Phalaropes</b> on the 6th (1) and the 7th (3).
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Western (Pacific-slope) Flycatcher - the 2nd record for TLBO</td></tr>
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The biggest banding highlight was the observatory's
second ever <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Western (Pacific-slope)
Flycatcher</b> on the 4th. Other banding highlights included the observatory's
first banded <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Least Sandpiper</b> and the
fourth ever banded <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Olive-sided
Flycatcher</b>, both on the 10th!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Juvenile Least Sandpiper</td></tr>
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Otherwise banding was steady but rather slow. The total
for the period was 323 birds, the top five being <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Alder Flycatcher</b> 76, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Yellow
Warbler</b> 42, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Yellow-rumped Warbler</b>
41, and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Blackpoll </b>and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Wilson's Warbler </b>both 24. The current
season top six is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Yellow-rumped Warbler</b>
104, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Alder Flycatcher</b> 88, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Yellow Warbler</b> 74, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">White-winged Crossbill</b> 38, and again both <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Blackpoll</b> and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Wilson's
Warbler</b> 37. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The banding totals
as of Aug 10</b> (the number in brackets indicates the number banded since the
last blog entry):</div>
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Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1 (1)</div>
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Least Sandpiper - 1 (1)</div>
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Spotted Sandpiper - 1</div>
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Belted Kingfisher - 4 (1)</div>
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Downy Woodpecker - 1 (1)</div>
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Northern Flicker - 3</div>
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Olive-sided Flycatcher - 1 (1)</div>
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Yellow-bellied Flycatcher - 7 (5)</div>
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Alder Flycatcher - 88 (76)</div>
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Least Flycatcher - 4 (2)</div>
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Hammond's Flycatcher - 15 (5)</div>
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Western Flycatcher - 1 (1)</div>
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Say's Phoebe - 1 (1)</div>
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Warbling Vireo - 12 (6)</div>
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Black-capped Chickadee - 8 (3)</div>
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Boreal Chickadee - 2 (1)</div>
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Red-breasted Nuthatch - 3 (2)</div>
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Golden-crowned Kinglet - 1</div>
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Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 6 (1)</div>
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Swainson's Thrush - 14 (9)</div>
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American Robin - 3 (2)</div>
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Tennessee Warbler - 7 (5)</div>
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Orange-crowned Warbler - 14 (8)</div>
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Yellow Warbler - 74 (42)</div>
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Yellow-rumped Warbler - 104 (41)</div>
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Blackpoll Warbler - 37 (24)</div>
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Townsend's Warbler - 2 (2)</div>
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American Redstart - 9 (1)</div>
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Northern Waterthrush - 15 (4)</div>
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Common Yellowthroat - 9 (4)</div>
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Wilson's Warbler - 37 (24)</div>
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Chipping Sparrow - 24 (13)</div>
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White-crowned Sparrow - 4 (2)</div>
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Dark-eyed Junco - 18 (8)</div>
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Savannah Sparrow - 2 (2)</div>
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Lincoln's Sparrow - 2 (2)</div>
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White-winged Crossbill - 38 (22)</div>
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Pine Siskin - 2</div>
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= 575 (323) birds of 38 (9) species</div>
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The Teslin Lake Bird Observatory opened for the fall season
on the 25th of July. The site was unusually dry as the lake water level is
lower than on any other year at the time of the season opening. That, of
course, is due to the very low snow pack this past winter.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This Rufous Hummingbird was only the second sighting of the species at the observatory</td></tr>
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As one can expect, most of the birds seen at the
observatory are local or nearby nesters and their off-spring. Common species
include <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Yellow</b>, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Yellow-rumped</b>
and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Blackpoll Warbler</b>, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Black-capped Chickadee</b>, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Warbling Vireo</b>, and this year <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">White-winged Crossbill</b> which have had a
great summer in the Yukon and are everywhere! The early part of the season is usually
slow with migration and exciting observations but we did have one exception -
the observatory's second ever <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Rufous
Hummingbird</b> was first seen on the 27th and then caught on the 29th! Other
notable sightings include 33 <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Bohemian
Waxwings</b> on Jul 26 (high count this early), 58 <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Arctic Terns</b> and a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Red-winged
Blackbird</b> on Jul 28 and a migrating flock of 37 adult <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Mew Gulls</b> on Jul 30.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A pair of White-winged Crossbills</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">An adult Yellow-bellied Flycatcher was a nice surprise as we usually only get young ones</td></tr>
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The banding season has started very well and our season
total in the end of July was 252 birds - the second highest for the date in the
observatory's history! The banding top five is as follows: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Yellow-rumped Warbler</b> 63, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Yellow
Warbler</b> 32, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">White-winged Crossbill</b>
16, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Blackpoll Warbler</b> 13 and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Wilson's Warbler</b> 13. We've also caught
unusually high number of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Hammond's
Flycatchers</b> and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Orange-crowned
Warblers</b> for the time of the year. Some of our banding highlights include a
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Spotted Sandpiper</b> and a <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>very early <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Golden-crowned Kinglet</b> on Jul 25, an adult <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Yellow-bellied Flycatcher</b> and a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Red-breasted Nuthatch</b>, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">White-crowned
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early captures for the site even if they nest nearby, on Jul 27, and three <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Northern Flickers</b> on Jul 31. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Three Northern Flickers - they make deafening racket to the extent it feels one's head is pulsating when they scream!!</td></tr>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The banding totals
as of July 31</b>:</div>
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Spotted Sandpiper - 1</div>
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Belted Kingfisher - 3</div>
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Northern Flicker - 3</div>
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Yellow-bellied Flycatcher - 2</div>
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Alder Flycatcher - 12</div>
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Least Flycatcher - 2</div>
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Hammond's Flycatcher - 10</div>
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Warbling Vireo - 6</div>
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Black-capped Chickadee - 5</div>
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Boreal Chickadee - 1</div>
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Red-breasted Nuthatch - 1</div>
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Golden-crowned Kinglet - 1</div>
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Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 5</div>
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Swainson's Thrush - 5</div>
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American Robin - 1</div>
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Tennessee Warbler - 2</div>
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Orange-crowned Warbler - 6</div>
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Yellow Warbler - 32</div>
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Yellow-rumped Warbler - 63</div>
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Blackpoll Warbler - 13</div>
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American Redstart - 8</div>
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Northern Waterthrush - 11</div>
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Common Yellowthroat - 5</div>
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Wilson's Warbler - 13</div>
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Chipping Sparrow - 11</div>
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White-crowned Sparrow - 2</div>
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Dark-eyed Junco - 10</div>
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White-winged Crossbill - 16</div>
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Pine Siskin - 2</div>
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Yukon Bird Observatorieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01097773125093983846noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3240098044528909962.post-39082317256604264532015-09-30T22:21:00.000-07:002015-09-30T22:21:58.128-07:00Teslin Lake update - Sept 30, 2015<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The intricate patterns of a frosty net </td></tr>
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The period started with cold but otherwise pretty nice
weather but as the month draw closer to the end the temperatures soared (up to
+15 one day!) and the winds picked up. For us it meant that on six days we had limited
netting effort due to unfavorable weather. The small birds were still moving
and we banded 349 birds breaking the 4000 birds banded in a season threshold
for the first time and the new all time season record currently stands at 4163!
The period top five was <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">American Tree
Sparrow</b> 65, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Ruby-crowned Kinglet</b>
59, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Dark-eyed Junco</b> 48, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Orange-crowned Warbler</b> 39, and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Boreal Chickadee</b> 27. The current season
top five is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Alder Flycatcher</b> 1058, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Yellow Warbler</b> 556, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Wilson's Warbler</b> 384, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Orange-crowned Warbler</b> 331, and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Yellow-rumped Warbler</b> 310.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This Orange-crowned Warbler marked the birth of the new all time season record</td></tr>
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Neither <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Boreal Chickadees</b> or <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Dark-eyed Juncos</b> started to move in
numbers that we expected. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sharp-shinned
Hawk</b> and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Gray-cheeked Thrush</b> both
reached a new season record. The banding highlights consisted of a late <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Swainson's Thrush</b> and the season 2nd <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Golden-crowned Kinglet</b> on the23rd, and
of two more <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Mountain Chickadees</b> on
the 27th. No new species for the season were caught.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And this American Tree Sparrow was the bird #4000!</td></tr>
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No actual rarities were seen. Two fly-by <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Redheads</b> on the 24th was probably the
rarest species and two very late <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Bank
Swallows</b> on the 27th was perhaps the most unusual sighting.
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A male American Redstart foraging in the willows by the shore</td></tr>
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The story was the strong raptor migration. In six
consecutive days, from the 22nd to the 27th, we tallied over 100 raptors each
day, over 1700 in total! The two biggest days were the 25th with 564 and the
26th with 543 raptors. On both days the migration took place mostly in the
afternoon and on both days the bulk of the migrants were <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Red-tailed Hawks</b> (418 on the 25th and 296 on the 26th). The conditions,
however, were quite different. On the 25th the weather cleared around noon and
the raptors started flying into strong headwind but on the 26th, after a crazy sleet/snow
storm, the wind suddenly shifted to northwest and the raptors took off under
low hanging clouds but assisted by stormy tail wind. Each day all the common
species were part of the flight including the first good numbers of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Golden Eagles</b> (39 on the 26th) and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Rough-legged Hawks</b> (45 on the 26th).</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A group of Red-tailed Hawks soaring in the updraft on the side of the "eagle" mountain</td></tr>
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It wasn't just raptors that were on the move on those
days. The first <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Tundra Swans</b> were
seen, including 405 on the 25th and 760 on the 26th, and earlier good numbers
of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sandhill Cranes</b> passed through
including 600 on the 23rd and 400 on the 24th. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Snow Geese</b> were seen in much higher numbers and more regularly than
what is normal. The two highest counts were 470 on the 24th and 120 on the
26th. 1300 <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">American Robins</b> tallied
on the 23rd was a good count but nowhere near the record.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">313 Sandhill Cranes</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mixed duck flocks are fun to sort out - here Common Merganser (top) with two Shovelers and an Wigeon</td></tr>
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The banding totals as of Sept 30 (the number in brackets
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Sharp-shinned Hawk - 24 (5)</div>
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Solitary Sandpiper - 3</div>
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Belted Kingfisher - 6</div>
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Downy Woodpecker - 1</div>
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Olive-sided Flycatcher -2</div>
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Western Wood-Pewee - 4</div>
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Yellow-bellied Flycatcher - 11</div>
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Alder Flycatcher - 1058</div>
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Least Flycatcher - 4</div>
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Hammond's Flycatcher -21 (1)</div>
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Dusky Flycatcher - 2</div>
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Say's Phoebe - 2</div>
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Warbling Vireo - 10</div>
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Gray Jay - 1</div>
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Common Raven - 1</div>
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Black-capped Chickadee -31 (3)</div>
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Mountain Chickadee - 4 (2)</div>
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Boreal Chickadee - 130 (27)</div>
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Red-breasted Nuthatch - 9</div>
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Golden-crowned Kinglet - 2 (1)</div>
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Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 274 (59)</div>
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Gray-cheeked Thrush - 11 (2)</div>
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Swainson's Thrush - 68 (1)</div>
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Hermit Thrush - 8 (2)</div>
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American Robin - 3</div>
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Varied Thrush - 2 (1)</div>
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American Pipit - 6</div>
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Tennessee Warbler -8</div>
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Orange-crowned Warbler - 331 (39)</div>
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Yellow Warbler - 556 (12)</div>
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Black-and-white Warbler - 1</div>
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Yellow-rumped Warbler - 310 (19)</div>
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Blackburnian Warbler - 1</div>
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Townsend's Warbler - 2</div>
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Blackpoll Warbler - 99</div>
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American Redstart - 47 (3)</div>
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Northern Waterthrush - 53</div>
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Common Yellowthroat - 88 (7)</div>
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Wilson's Warbler - 384 (22)</div>
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American Tree Sparrow - 133 (65)</div>
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Chipping Sparrow - 29</div>
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Savannah Sparrow - 55 (4)</div>
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Fox Sparrow - 42 (10)</div>
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Lincoln's Sparrow - 64 (10)</div>
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White-crowned Sparrow - 22 (4)</div>
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Golden-crowned Sparrow - 2</div>
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Dark-eyed Junco - 210 (48)</div>
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Rusty Blackbird - 18 (2)</div>
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Brown-headed Cowbird - 1</div>
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Common Redpoll - 8</div>
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Pine Siskin - 1</div>
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Yukon Bird Observatorieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01097773125093983846noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3240098044528909962.post-61323591860696918692015-09-24T07:09:00.000-07:002015-09-24T07:09:15.827-07:00Teslin Lake update - Sept 20, 2015<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"In September Yukon turns yellow" is what I wrote last year. Closer to the ground there are many shades of red too!!</td></tr>
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Not unexpectedly the temperatures dropped during the
period and the colors changed from green to yellow during the period. It was
still more rainy and warmer than average and we didn't get our first frost
until the morning of the 20th. The banding remained good although the numbers
did drop a little. However, the drop was noticeably less than on the other
years at this time of the year and consequently the current season total 3814
is the observatory history's highest for the date! The current season top five
is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Alder Flycatcher</b> 1058, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Yellow Warbler</b> 544, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Wilson's Warbler</b> 362, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Orange-crowned Warbler</b> 292, and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Yellow-rumped Warbler</b> 291.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A very late Warbling Vireo was caught on the 14th</td></tr>
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During the period a total of 634 birds were tagged
including four new species for the season: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Blackburnian
Warbler</b> on the 15th, familiar from the previous post and the highlight of
the year thus far, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Pine Siskin</b> on
the 14th, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Varied Thrush</b> on the 16th,
and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Mountain Chickadee</b> on the 17th.
The season record breaking continued as additional six species (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Ruby-crowned Kinglet</b>, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Orange-crowned Warbler</b>, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">American Redstart</b>, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Chipping Sparrow</b>, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Fox
Sparrow</b>, and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Lincoln's Sparrow</b>) reached
a new high! The period top five was <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Ruby-crowned
Kinglet</b> 128, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Dark-eyed Junco</b> 94,
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Wilson's Warbler</b> 58, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Boreal Chickadee</b> 54 and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Orange-crowned Warbler</b> 51. Other than
the Blackburnian Warbler there weren't too many banding highlights but the few
included a three <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sharp-shinned Hawk</b>
net round on the 19th, and late birds such as <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Warbling Vireos</b> on the 13th and the 14th, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Chipping Sparrow</b> on the 18th, and a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Tennessee Warbler</b> on the 19th.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">American Redstart is one of the many species that have broken old season records this year</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Juvenile (L) and adult female (R) Sharp-shinned Hawks caught on the same net run</td></tr>
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Outside the nets the period was a rather quiet one. The
season first <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Mountain Bluebird</b> flew
by on the 12th and three <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Parasitic
Jaegers</b> roamed around the lake the same day. It hasn't been a good year for
Jaeger sightings. Visual migration counts were slow as well. The highest
morning flight activity was seen also on the 12th when about 700 <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Yellow-rumped Warblers</b> were tallied
flying by as well as 146 <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Varied Thrushes</b>.
On the 18th another 124 Varieds were seen. Even though the weather wasn't perfect
for raptor flights there was some movement on most days. 168 raptors on the
19th was the highest day total and included <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Osprey</b> 6, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Golden Eagle</b>
3, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Northern Harrier</b> 26, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sharp-shinned Hawk </b>49, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Bald Eagle</b> 9, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Red-tailed Hawk</b> 60, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">American
Kestrel</b> 6, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Merlin</b> 7 and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Peregrine Falcon</b> 2. A juvenile <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Gyrfalcon</b> flew right past the banding
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This Gray Jay attempted to cross the lake, something I've never seen at TLBO, but finally chickened out after seemingly reaching almost the half way point!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Who would've thought that the bright yellow of Yellow Warbler also serves as camouflage!</td></tr>
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Sharp-shinned Hawk - 19 (8)</div>
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Solitary Sandpiper - 3</div>
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Hammond's Flycatcher -20 (4)</div>
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Say's Phoebe - 2</div>
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Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 215 (128)</div>
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Gray-cheeked Thrush - 9 (3)</div>
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Swainson's Thrush - 67 (1)</div>
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Hermit Thrush - 6 (2)</div>
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American Pipit - 6 (1)</div>
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Tennessee Warbler -8 (1)</div>
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Orange-crowned Warbler - 292 (51)</div>
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Yellow Warbler - 544 (33)</div>
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Black-and-white Warbler - 1</div>
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Yellow-rumped Warbler - 291 (49)</div>
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Blackburnian Warbler - 1 (1)</div>
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Blackpoll Warbler - 99 (1)</div>
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American Redstart - 44 (11)</div>
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Northern Waterthrush - 53 (1)</div>
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Common Yellowthroat - 81 (14)</div>
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Wilson's Warbler - 362 (58)</div>
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American Tree Sparrow - 68 (28)</div>
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Chipping Sparrow - 29 (1)</div>
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Savannah Sparrow - 51 (16)</div>
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Fox Sparrow - 32 (11)</div>
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Lincoln's Sparrow - 54 (27)</div>
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White-crowned Sparrow - 18 (7)</div>
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Golden-crowned Sparrow - 2 (1)</div>
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Dark-eyed Junco - 162 (94)</div>
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Rusty Blackbird - 16 (9)</div>
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Brown-headed Cowbird - 1</div>
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Common Redpoll - 8 (3)</div>
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Yukon Bird Observatorieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01097773125093983846noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3240098044528909962.post-16779800837970519822015-09-15T20:21:00.000-07:002015-09-15T23:32:10.850-07:00Teslin Lake update - Sept 15, 2015 - Blackburnian Warbler!<br />
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Today it happened, the bird we've always waited for, Ted's favorite bird, a Blackburnian Warbler found our nets on the 11:45am net check!! Hélène was the lucky one to extract it from a net and yours truly was given the honors to put a band on it. It was determined to be a young male, age confirmed by incomplete skull ossification.<br />
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This is the first record for the Yukon! It's range extends to the Peace country of BC where it is quite rare a bird around Fort St John - Chetwynd - Dawson Creek as far as I know. That is about 1000km southeast from Teslin. The core range is from Alberta/Saskatchewan east. You can learn more about Blackburnian Warbler from <a href="http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Blackburnian_Warbler/id" target="_blank">http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Blackburnian_Warbler/id</a><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here our star alongside Ted's tattoo of an adult male of the same species, his favorite bird!</td></tr>
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For the full suite of photos of our bird please visit <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/jukka_jantunen/" target="_blank">https://www.flickr.com/photos/jukka_jantunen/</a><br />
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As you all may know, one has to be careful what one wishes for and likewise be very careful what one promises. It so happened that I went and promised early season that if we were to catch a Blackburnian Warbler I'd jump into the lake - and so I had to. Luckily Ted and Hélène were brave and kind enough to join me.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ted (L), Jukka (M) & Hélène (R) in the really really ridiculously cold Teslin Lake! Photo actually by Francis Bordeleau-Martin.</td></tr>
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Jukka,<br />
the Bander-in-charge <br />
<br />Yukon Bird Observatorieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01097773125093983846noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3240098044528909962.post-43882224929470841242015-09-11T10:09:00.003-07:002015-09-11T20:51:38.127-07:00Teslin Lake update - September 10, 2015<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">An adult Bald Eagle watches the world from atop of a spruce tree</td></tr>
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The weather was very unsettled early in the period with
rain and cold north winds. The surrounding mountains got lots of snow which did
mostly melt away. The rain combined from this and the last period was enough to
bring the lake up to about the same it was at the start of the season and our
pond actually has a lot more water now than at the start - something we've
never seen before! Towards the end of the period we had some nicer weather,
even some sun, and the owling crew was fortunate to enjoy an amazing display of
northern lights on the night of Sept 8th/9th.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fresh snow blanketed the surrounding mountains, even the lower ones!</td></tr>
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Banding remained very busy and, even though we lost one
complete and most of three other mornings to weather, we banded a total of 1023
birds. Those lost days were compensated by high numbers on days when we were able to operate, including 201 banded on the 4th and 231 on the 7th. Four new species were added for the season: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Golden-crowned Kinglet</b> on the 5th, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">American
Tree Sparrow</b> on the 3rd, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Golden-crowned Sparrow</b>
on the 7th and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Rusty Blackbird</b> on the 3rd. 29 <b>American Tree Sparrows</b> banded on the 7th was an unprecedented influx this early in the season. The period top
five was <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Yellow Warbler</b> 218, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Orange-crowned Warbler</b> 142, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Wilson's Warbler</b> 126, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Yellow-rumped Warbler</b> 105, and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Alder Flycatcher</b> 97. The current season
top five is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Alder Flycatcher</b> 1050, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Yellow Warbler</b> 511, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Wilson's Warbler</b> 304, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Yellow-rumped Warbler</b> 242, and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Orange-crowned Warbler</b> 241. The current
season total is the highest for the date in the observatory's history. During the period five species (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Alder Flycatcher</b>, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">American Pipit, Yellow Warbler, Wilson's Warbler</b> and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Savannah Sparrow</b>)<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>reached a new season record. Of course, the most remarkable
of these is the now over 1000 <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Alder
Flycatchers</b>!! <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Alder Flycatcher #1028!!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The season 1st Golden-crowned Kinglet was a scruffy-looking young male</td></tr>
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No real rarities were seen or banded but the first two
days of September were great migration days. On the 1st 761 raptors were
counted for a new observatory one day record. 588 of those were <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Red-tailed Hawks</b> including one of
subspecies abieticola, the 1st positive ID of the taxon for the observatory,
and one nearly completely white leucistic one! Other raptors on the move that
day included the season 1st <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Golden Eagle</b>,
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Northern Harrier</b> 87, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Swainson's Hawk</b> 32 and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Peregrine Falcon</b> 12. On the 2nd,
further 367 raptors were seen including <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Red-tailed
Hawk</b> 204, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Northern Harrier</b> 64, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sharp-shinned Hawk</b> 50, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Swainson's Hawk</b> 4, and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">American Kestrel</b> 37. The <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Swainson's Hawk</b> season total is now
over 100 - more than four times the previous highest season total!! </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This almost all white Red-tailed Hawk was a most unusual sight!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A juvenile female Northern Harrier</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">During the cold and wet weather many migrants were foraging along the shore just like this young Say's Phoebe</td></tr>
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Other birds heading south on those days included 906 <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sandhill Cranes</b> on the 1st and 859 on
the 2nd, and 70 <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Rusty Blackbirds</b> on
the 1st and 53 on the 2nd. These numbers are unusually high for both species at
this time of the year. Unusual sightings included two somewhat late juvenile <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Arctic Terns</b>, an <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">American Golden Plover</b>, and an <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Upland
Sandpiper</b> on the 1st, and the season 1st <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Glaucous Gull</b> and a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Baird's
Sandpiper</b> on the 2nd. Later on the pace quieted significantly and no high
counts of anything were made but naturally the odd interesting sighting was
made. On the 3rd a late <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Cliff Swallow</b>
was seen flying south and the season first group of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Golden-crowned Kinglets</b> foraged in a spruce top visible from the
banding spot. The season 1st <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Three-toed
Woodpecker</b> was seen on the 7th and a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sanderling</b>,
possibly the same juvenile, was seen both on the 7th and on the 9th. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Baird's Sandpipers are not often seen on our rocky shoreline even if it is a common migrant on mudfalts</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The second year Common Loons like this one are not often seen in the northern interior. Most of them spent the first two years of their lives on the wintering grounds.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Not all the exciting things with wings are birds. Here a female Zigzag Darner.</td></tr>
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The banding totals as of Sept 10 (the number in brackets
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Sharp-shinned Hawk - 11 (2)</div>
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Solitary Sandpiper - 3</div>
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Belted Kingfisher - 6</div>
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Downy Woodpecker - 1 (1)</div>
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Olive-sided Flycatcher -2</div>
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Western Wood-Pewee - 4 (2)</div>
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Yellow-bellied Flycatcher - 11</div>
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Alder Flycatcher - 1050 (97)</div>
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Least Flycatcher - 4</div>
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Hammond's Flycatcher -16 (6)</div>
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Dusky Flycatcher - 2 (1)</div>
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Say's Phoebe - 2</div>
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Warbling Vireo - 8 (1)</div>
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Gray Jay - 1</div>
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Common Raven - 1</div>
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Black-capped Chickadee -27 (3)</div>
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Boreal Chickadee - 49 (41)</div>
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Red-breasted Nuthatch - 8</div>
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Golden-crowned Kinglet - 1 (1)</div>
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Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 87 (56)</div>
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Gray-cheeked Thrush - 6 (4)</div>
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Swainson's Thrush - 66 (7)</div>
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Hermit Thrush - 4 (2)</div>
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American Robin - 3 (1)</div>
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American Pipit - 5 (4)</div>
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Tennessee Warbler -7 (1)</div>
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Orange-crowned Warbler - 241 (142)</div>
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Yellow Warbler - 511 (218)</div>
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Black-and-white Warbler - 1</div>
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Yellow-rumped Warbler - 242 (105)</div>
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Townsend's Warbler - 2</div>
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Blackpoll Warbler - 98 (28)</div>
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American Redstart - 33 (6)</div>
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Northern Waterthrush - 52 (7)</div>
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Common Yellowthroat - 67 (32)</div>
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Wilson's Warbler - 304 (126)</div>
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American Tree Sparrow - 40 (40)</div>
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Chipping Sparrow - 28 (3)</div>
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Savannah Sparrow - 35 (14)</div>
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Fox Sparrow - 21 (15)</div>
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Lincoln's Sparrow - 27 (6)</div>
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White-crowned Sparrow - 11 (2)</div>
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Dark-eyed Junco - 68 (40)</div>
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Rusty Blackbird - 7 (7)</div>
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Brown-headed Cowbird - 1</div>
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Common Redpoll - 5 (4)</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fresh snow on the surrounding mountains on the morning of Aug 30th</td></tr>
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For the last ten days of August the weather remained very
unsettled. Fortunately we only lost two full mornings of banding as for the
most part the pattern remained the same - cloudy with showers in the morning
and solid rain in the afternoon. It rained so much that the lake started to
come up again. As much as it is the human nature to complain about the weather,
the weather we had actually brought us some great birding and good numbers. As
the fresh snow blanketed all of the alpine and lot of the treeline as well in
the last few days of the month it first dropped many of the passerines living
up there down and then, together with northwest winds, created an unprecedented
exodus of Swainson's Hawks among other birds fleeting the suddenly early
October like conditions.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This Ruby-crowned Kinglet was the 2000th bird banded this season</td></tr>
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Of the eight mornings we were able to operate on six we banded
over a hundred birds. In total, we banded 939 birds and the top five was as
follows: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Alder Flycatcher</b> 405, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Yellow Warbler</b> 137, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Wilson's Warbler</b> 77, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Orange-crowned Warbler</b> 68, and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Yellow-rumped Warbler</b> 58. Some of the
more interesting birds banded included the season 2nd <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Olive-sided Flycatcher</b> on the 27th, also the season 2nd <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Say's Phoebe</b> on the 26th,
the season first <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Gray-cheeked Thrush</b>
on the 23rd, two fairly late <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Tennessee
Warblers</b>, one on the 27th and the other on the 31st, the season first <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">American Tree Sparrow</b> on the 26th, and finally,
a late <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Warbling Vireo</b> and the season
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Adult (L) and hatch-year (R) Lincoln's Sparrow showing the color difference of the face and particularly rear eye-brow - pure gray on adult but with greenish tint on the HY</td></tr>
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While the banding was very busy throughout the period the
more interesting sightings and high visible migration counts took place late,
between the 25th and the end of the month. The first wave of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Greater White-fronted Geese</b> was seen on
the 25th when 1700 were tallied but the big movement went through in a few
early afternoon hours of the 28th. That day's count 6850 is the observatory's
2nd highest. That day was also the first one with some notable raptor movement
as 174 were counted including <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Northern
Harrier</b> 69, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sharp-shinned Hawk</b>
34, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Red-tailed Hawk</b> 29, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">American Kestrel</b> 27, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Swainson's Hawk</b> 9 and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Peregrine Falcon</b> 4. 390 <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sandhill Cranes</b> was also a very good
count this early in the season and the seven <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Say's Phoebes</b> seen during the morning set a new day record. The
29th was a day of heavy rain and no bird movement but on the 30th the wind
started to blow from northwest again bringing a modest flight of 500 <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Greater White-fronted Geese</b>, likely the
last decent flight of the species this fall, and a tally of 146 raptors
including <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sharp-shinned Hawk</b> 46, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Red-tailed Hawk</b> 40, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Northern Harrier</b> 27, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Swainson's Hawk</b> 10 and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Peregrine Falcon</b> 10. The 31st belonged
to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Swainson's Hawk</b> as the day total
of 52 far exceeded anything we had ever seen before and was about twice as many
as the highest previous season total!! Other notable raptor counts for the day
included <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Northern Harrier</b> 64, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Red-tailed Hawk</b> 25, and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sharp-shinned Hawk</b> 21. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of the many small flocks of Sandhill Cranes seen during the last few days of August</td></tr>
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While the Swainson's Hawk flight was the phenomenon of
the period the two most exciting birds were both real big time rarities. A <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Black-and-white Warbler</b> was first seen
from the campground cooking shelter on the afternoon of the 29th and then
caught and banded on the 30th. It was the first record for the observatory and
for the whole Teslin area. Even more rare was an unidentified <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Chaetura swift (Chimney/Vaux's)</b> seen
briefly on the 28th. It was the first record for the Yukon!</div>
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The sightings of other less common species during the
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the 24th, a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Common Nighthawk</b> flew
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bonaparte's Gulls are already uncommon in late August and birds in full juvenal plumage are really quite rare at that late a date</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The season's first Downy Woodpecker stopped at the tip briefly on the 24th</td></tr>
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The banding totals as of Aug 31 (the number in brackets
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Sharp-shinned Hawk - 9 (3)</div>
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Solitary Sandpiper - 3</div>
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Belted Kingfisher - 6 (2)</div>
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Olive-sided Flycatcher -2 (1)</div>
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Western Wood-Pewee - 2</div>
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Yellow-bellied Flycatcher - 11 (3)</div>
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Alder Flycatcher - 953 (405)</div>
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Least Flycatcher - 4 (1)</div>
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Hammond's Flycatcher -10 (6)</div>
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Dusky Flycatcher - 1 (1)</div>
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Say's Phoebe - 2 (1)</div>
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Warbling Vireo - 7 (2)</div>
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Gray Jay - 1 (1)</div>
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Common Raven - 1</div>
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Black-capped Chickadee -24 (12)</div>
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Boreal Chickadee - 8 (8)</div>
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Red-breasted Nuthatch - 8 (2)</div>
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Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 31 (11)</div>
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Gray-cheeked Thrush - 2 (2)</div>
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Swainson's Thrush - 59 (31)</div>
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Hermit Thrush - 2 (1)</div>
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American Robin - 2</div>
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American Pipit - 1</div>
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Tennessee Warbler - 6 (2)</div>
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Orange-crowned Warbler - 99 (68)</div>
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Yellow Warbler - 293 (137)</div>
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Black-and-white Warbler - 1 (1)</div>
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Yellow-rumped Warbler - 137 (58)</div>
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Townsend's Warbler - 2</div>
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Blackpoll Warbler - 70 (21)</div>
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American Redstart - 27 (8)</div>
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Northern Waterthrush - 45 (11)</div>
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Common Yellowthroat - 35 (26)</div>
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Wilson's Warbler - 178 (77)</div>
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Chipping Sparrow - 25</div>
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Savannah Sparrow - 21 (7)</div>
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Fox Sparrow - 6 (5)</div>
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Lincoln's Sparrow - 21 (10)</div>
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White-crowned Sparrow - 9 (9)</div>
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Dark-eyed Junco - 28 (28)</div>
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= 2157 (939) birds of 43 (7) species</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A fleet of Common Loons off the point<b><br /></b></td></tr>
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Teslin Lake Bird Observatory opened the 2015 fall season
on Jul 26. Unlike last year there was plenty of exposed shoreline already at
the start due to low snow pack last winter and a fairly dry summer.
Unfortunately the dryness has since come to an end and in the last three weeks <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>we've had exactly one day when it didn't rain
at all. Luckily most of the rain has come in the afternoons and we haven't lost
very much of operation time. However, it has been tough for our volunteers as
they've often been confined to indoors or their tents after the work due to
some pretty heavy rain. This year we have two volunteers, Hélène Dion-Phenix and
Francis Bordeleau-Martin, from Quebec for the whole season. Allyn Esau from
Edmonton, Alberta, has been with us almost from the start, Gwen Baluss from
Juneau, Alaska, did her usual and much appreciated four day stint last week,
and quite a number of other volunteers have been helping out particularly on
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hélène Dion-Phenix banding a Ruby-crowned Kinglet</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This young male Yellow-rumped Warbler was the 1000th bird banded this fall season</td></tr>
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The banding has been quite good and steady, and the
season total 1218 is the second highest for the date in the observatory's
history. The current top 5 is as follows: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Alder
Flycatcher</b> 548, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Yellow Warbler</b>
156, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Wilson's Warbler</b> 101, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Yellow-rumped Warbler</b> 79, and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Blackpoll Warbler </b>49. Some of the
banding highlights have included an <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Olive-sided
Flycatcher</b> on Jul 27 (only the 2nd for fall banding), a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Say's Phoebe</b> on Aug 14 (the 1st since 2010),
a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Common Raven</b> on Aug 18 (the 3rd
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This Olive-sided Flycatcher was only the 2nd ever banded in fall at TLBO</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Say's Phoebe is a fairly common migrant through the site but not often banded. The previous one was in 2010.</td></tr>
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So far we've had two sightings of rare birds this fall. The
observatory's 2nd and the Yukon's 5th record of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Black Turnstone</b>, a juvenile, was seen on the south beach on Aug 12
and the observatory's 1st record of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Short-billed
Dowitcher</b>, also a juvenile, spent Aug 16 to 18 in the pond giving great
views to everyone.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This juvenile Black Turnstone was only about the 5th record for the Yukon</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Juvenile Short-billed Dowitcher photographed on the first morning (Aug 16) of its three day stay</td></tr>
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The visual migration counts have revealed very little
movement of bigger birds. There have been several flocks of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Greater White-fronted Geese</b>, the first
ones very early in August and definitely ahead of the expected schedule, and
one flock of nine <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sandhill Cranes</b> on
Aug 13, also very early. Very few raptors have been on the move but an adult
male <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Peregrine Falcon</b> on Aug 15 put
up quite a show and in the end captured an <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Arctic
Tern</b>. Other observations of interest have been daily <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Red-throated Loons</b> and local <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Merlins</b>,
the first few <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Thayer's Gulls</b> in
mid-August, early sightings of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Northern
Shrike</b> on Aug 6 and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Black-backed
Woodpecker</b> on Aug 17, and a few small groups of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Boreal Chickadees</b> in the past week perhaps indicating a beginning
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A female Red-breasted Merganser with her little ones</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A Blackpoll Warbler still partially in juvenile plumage</td></tr>
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Of the non-feathered friends of ours There must be more than ten <b>Red Squirrels</b> in the area and a few <b>Least Chipmunks</b> are chucking away on most mornings. <b>Porcupines</b> have been present almost daily providing us with endless entertainment. A <b>Black-tailed Weasel</b>, or <b>Ermine</b> (your pick), has visited the banding table area a few times. Luckily it hasn't caused any issues at the nets.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yummy!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">So cute, so deadly</td></tr>
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<b>The banding totals as of Aug 20</b>:</div>
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Sharp-shinned Hawk - 6</div>
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Solitary Sandpiper - 3</div>
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Belted Kingfisher - 4</div>
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Olive-sided Flycatcher - 1</div>
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Western Wood-Pewee - 2</div>
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Yellow-bellied Flycatcher - 8</div>
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Alder Flycatcher - 548</div>
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Least Flycatcher - 3</div>
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Hammond's Flycatcher - 4</div>
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Say's Phoebe - 1</div>
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Warbling Vireo - 5</div>
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Common Raven - 1</div>
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Black-capped Chickadee - 12</div>
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Red-breasted Nuthatch - 6</div>
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Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 20</div>
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Swainson's Thrush - 28</div>
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Hermit Thrush - 1</div>
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American Robin - 2</div>
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American Pipit - 1</div>
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Tennessee Warbler - 4</div>
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Orange-crowned Warbler - 31</div>
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Yellow Warbler - 156</div>
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Yellow-rumped Warbler - 79</div>
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Townsend's Warbler - 2</div>
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Blackpoll Warbler - 49</div>
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American Redstart - 19</div>
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Northern Waterthrush - 34</div>
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Common Yellowthroat - 19</div>
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Wilson's Warbler - 101</div>
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Chipping Sparrow - 25</div>
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Savannah Sparrow - 14</div>
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Fox Sparrow - 1</div>
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Lincoln's Sparrow - 11</div>
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Brown-headed Cowbird - 1</div>
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Yukon Bird Observatorieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01097773125093983846noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3240098044528909962.post-52073270950387589282014-11-13T13:33:00.001-08:002014-11-13T14:28:47.441-08:00Teslin Lake - the end of the season 2014<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A flock of Tundra Swans approaching</td></tr>
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Towards the end of the season the weather was warmer than
average so that there was almost no snow on the ground and the pond barely
froze. Even though, partly due the colder weather earlier, many of the smaller
passerines had disappeared there was plenty to watch during the last two weeks
of the season. Particularly prominent were the swans but redpolls and eagles
kept the migration counter busy as well. The peak of the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Redpolls</b> was fairly short as the main movement started on the 12th
with 700 counted and right away followed by the highest count of 4300 on the
13th. 3000 were counted on the 14th and again 700 on the 15th followed by much
more moderate numbers after that. There was a good number, particularly for the
time of the year, of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Pine Siskins</b> on
the move with the Redpolls including the high count of 259 on the 12th. During
the peak days most of the Redpolls were heading west but later on when the
numbers were already smaller the majority was heading north and even northeast
on the 23rd when 500 were tallied. That day 3 <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Hoary Redpolls </b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>were
identified from the several flocks that landed briefly. Surprisingly, after
being absent for most of the season, small numbers of both species of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Crossbills</b> were seen regularly. The
annual <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Pine Grosbeak</b> movement was
pretty slow this year with the high count of only 44 on the 17th.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of the many flocks of Common Redpolls zipping by the point</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A flock of mostly Greater Scaups flying by</td></tr>
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Interestingly almost all the swans seen were <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Tundra Swans</b> and no big movement of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Trumpeters</b> was noticed even late in the
season. The biggest swan flights seen were 1100 on the 15th, 5200 on the 16th,
3200 on the 17th, and 1700 on the 22nd. On each day the biggest numbers were
seen in the afternoon. The season total was impressive 16 500 Tundras. As usual
there were no big raptor days this late in the season but the raptor numbers
were higher than average for the time of the year. The majority of raptors were
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Golden Eagles,</b> of course, including
11 on the 13th, 37 on the 17th, 26 on the 25th and 18 on the 27th, the last day
of operation. The high migration counts for <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Bald Eagle</b> were 8 on the 17th and 24 on the 27th. 11 <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Rough-legged Hawks</b> were seen on the
16th and 14 on the 18th. 8 <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Northern
Harriers</b> on the 16th was a really high count for that late a date as was
the count of 7 <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sharp-shinned Hawks</b>
the following day too. The 6 <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Northern
Goshawks</b> seen on the 27th tied the station day record.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">An adult and a juvenile Tundra Swan</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It was almost a record poor year for Boreal Chickadees at TLBO. This one visited the point in mid-October</td></tr>
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No real rarities were seen but an <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">American Dipper,</b> flying along the lakeshore on the 27th, was a new
species for TLBO as was <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Evening Grosbeak,</b>
three of which flew by on the 15th. A shorebird looking like a<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Dunlin</b>, seen
on the 19th, would've also been a new species had it been positively identified
as such but the views weren't sufficient enough to confirm the species. A
juvenile <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Yellow-billed Loon</b> was seen
on three different days, two <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Snow Geese</b>
were seen mixed in the swan flocks, one on the 15th and the other on the 17th, and
an unidentified <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Ptarmigan</b> was spotted
on the opposite shore on the 23rd. Birds behind the usual departure time were
few but included a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Greater White-fronted
Goose</b> on the 15th, a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sandhill Crane</b>
on the 17th, an <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Osprey</b> and two <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Varied Thrushes</b> on the 18th, a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Northern Shoveler</b> on the 23rd and a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Yellow-rumped Warbler</b> on the 27th. The
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">For about a week this juvenile Yellow-billed Loon was a regular sight around the point</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A hatch-year (i.e. juvenile) Boreal Owl - one of about 40 banded this year!</td></tr>
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Below are the season's raptor counts, species organized
in the order of abundance. Notice that these numbers include both the birds
observed flying by the observatory in migration flight as well as birds just
hanging around. Bald Eagle gets the biggest gain from this as there were a few local
birds present throughout the season.
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Red-tailed Hawk 581</div>
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Golden Eagle<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span> <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>293</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Probably one of the locally born Bald Eagles, this juvenile visited the gull feeding station regularly for about a month</td></tr>
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Finally, as the final thoughts of the season, it is time
to thank various people for their efforts to keep the projects going. A big
thank you for all the field volunteers, particularly Sarah Nägl, Ariel Lenske,
Gwen Baluss, Julie Bauer, Vesta Mather and Chris Sukha, for all the help you
provided. Doug Martens for providing the BIC with a comfortable accomodation, Ted
Murphy-Kelly for the help with all the logistics, and the Schonewilles for
dealing with the station gear and data related issues. Last but not the least,
thanks for all our financial supporters! See you next year!<br />
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As most already know, these blog entries are provided by BIC Jukka Jantunen. From the station managers (Ben Schonewille & Ted Murphy-Kelly), also thank you to Jukka for his exceptional dedication and attention to detail with running the station once again this year. Your hard work does not go unnoticed - our readers may be interested to know that Jukka spent nearly 600 hours at TLBO this fall, including over 275 hours conducting the visual migration counts !</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A mixed flock of Tundra and Trumpeter Swans passing the point</td></tr>
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The end of September marks the end of the standard
banding season but every year we continue with non-standard banding effort as
long as we have adequate personnel or the weather turns too harsh to band. This
year neither mattered as there simply were no birds along the net-lanes in
early October. Our longest serving volunteer of the season, Sarah Nägl, moved
on and continued her adventures on the 6th and Chris Sukha who came up from
Mackenzie banding station headed back down the highway on the 8th. The weather
was unsettled to say the least and we received snow on a few occasions early in
the month. I didn't even check for this blog entry but I think with the little
effort the weather allowed for us we were able to catch and band a whopping
three birds!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It may well be that the same Horned Grebe has spent almost a month by TLBO. In that time the appearance has changed quite a bit as it has now molted into the winter plumage.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This Gray-cheeked Thrush foraged openly on the beach in the afternoon of Oct 1st</td></tr>
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No birds in the nets did not mean no birds period. The
month started with a howling northwest wind and snow that, on the 1st, brought us
so far the best flight of the season. Early morning many flocks of swans,
cranes and ducks disappeared into the low hanging clouds and the strong wind
kept us off the usual watch site at the tip forcing us to seek shelter from the
south side shore where the visibility isn't quite the same as from the tip. In spite
of the difficulties caused by the weather we counted about 3800 <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Tundra Swans</b>, 800 <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ducks</b> of various species, 250 <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sandhill
Cranes</b> in many small flocks and over 400 <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">raptors</b> (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Red-tailed Hawk</b>
189, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Golden Eagle</b> 93, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sharp-shinned Hawk</b> 64, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Rough-legged Hawk</b> 28 and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Merlin</b> 15). Both the number of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Golden Eagles</b> and of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Merlins</b> is a new one day record for the
observatory! Other sightings of interest that day were also a record count of
48 <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Canvasbacks</b>, 169 <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Snow Geese</b>, the season 1st <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Snow Bunting</b> and a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Gray-cheeked Thrush</b> that appeared on the beach in the afternoon
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The heavy snowfall on the 9th was apparent in the accumulation on the back of this juvenile Thayer's Gull!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">On the 9th, both this Lapland Longspur (above) and the American Pipit (below) were foraging on the about one foot wide bare belt along the shore that was kept snow free by the waves.</td></tr>
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The next few days didn't offer much excitement. Two <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Mountain Bluebirds</b> stopped at the tip
briefly on the 3rd and 40 <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Canvasbacks</b>
and 15 <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Golden Eagles</b> were seen on
the 4th. On the 7th there was again some movement but nothing like on the 1st.
That day 1200 <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">swans</b> were tallied,
again mostly <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Tundras</b> but this time
also a good number (130) of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Trumpeters</b>
mixed in too. Many flocks of swans were only heard as it was snowing heavily
for about half of the day! After the snow stopped over 100 <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">raptors</b> were counted also, including <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sharp-shinned Hawk</b> 29, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Golden
Eagle</b> 26, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Red-tailed Hawk</b> 24 and
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Rough-legged Hawk</b> 20. Among the raptors
there was one southbound <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Northern Hawk
Owl</b>. 400 more <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">swans</b> were seen on
the 10th but other than that the visible migration was slow after the 7th. The
most exciting bird of the period was an adult <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Black-legged Kittiwake</b> that was seen just before a major snowfall
started on the 9th and again on the 10th constituting the 2nd record for TLBO
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A distant, heavily cropped, document shot of the Kittiwake</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A family of Tundra Swans landing at the creek mouth for a couple of minutes breather.</td></tr>
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Yukon Bird Observatorieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01097773125093983846noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3240098044528909962.post-2392353897110437132014-09-30T23:59:00.000-07:002014-10-01T00:03:43.506-07:00Teslin Lake update, September 30 2014<br />
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Well, this is a blog entry of a ten day period at TLBO
unlike any other before. Sure there was rain and wind, lots of them, and even
some snow but none of that bad weather can explain the nearly complete lack of
birds in the nets. We only banded 38 birds (!!) during the day time effort and
further 16 owls at night for a grand total of 54. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Northern Shrike</b> and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Hermit
Thrush</b>, both on the 26th, were new species for the season. A <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Winter/Pacific Wren</b>, a recent split
where the identification criteria for non-vocalizing birds is yet to be
established, was banded on the 22nd and was a new species for the site. TLBO's
1st ever <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Northern Saw-whet Owl</b> was
banded the same evening and amazingly another one was banded at our separate owl site the
following night!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The 1st Northern Saw-whet Owl for TLBO! Below is the second one - so cute, so small!</td></tr>
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The biggest news, however, were caused by the TLBO's 1st
and roughly the Yukon's 5th <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Turkey Vulture</b>
that flew by on the 24th. Unfortunately it didn't come close enough for even
record shots. On the same morning a juvenile <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Gyrfalcon</b> put up a nice show by chasing some local gulls and
sitting in various spruce trees for great scope views and some poor photos as it
was so early in the morning that there was almost no light for photos. Another <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Gyrfalcon</b> flew by on the 27th. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Black-bellied Plover</b> is a pretty common
fall migrant in the Yukon so it may come as a surprise to our readers that the
flocks of 11 and 17 birds seen on the 21st were only the 2nd and 3rd record for
TLBO, something that the staff is equally baffled about!</div>
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Other sightings of somewhat uncommon birds at TLBO
included yet another <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sanderling</b> on
the 21st, four <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Redheads</b> and two <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Harlequin Ducks</b> on the 23rd and an
unidentified winter-plumaged <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Phalarope</b>
way out on the lake on the same day. A <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Belted
Kingfisher</b> seen on the 29th was the only bird seen that was behind its
usual departure time. However, several species were seen for the first time
this season: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Long-tailed Duck</b> and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Long-billed Dowitcher</b> on the 21st, and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Tundra Swan</b>, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Ring-necked Duck</b> and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Glaucous
Gull</b> on the 23rd. Of uncommon migrants<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>72 <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Snow Geese</b> were seen on
the 24th and 82 on the 30th, 37 <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Canvasbacks</b>
on the 21st and 12 on the 23rd, and 13 <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sandhill
Cranes</b> on the 21st, 69 on the 29th and 10 on the 30th.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Northern Pintail traveling with Canada Geese</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A light-morph juvenile Harlan's Hawk is a funky looking thing!</td></tr>
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Usually the big news at this time of the year are the big
southbound flights of various species but so far we've had very few exciting
movements happen. On the 21st under cloudy skies and rain 157 <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Lesser Scaup</b> and 71 <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Pacific Loons</b> were counted. Neither is
a very high count but so far the highest for the season as was the count of 263
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Canada Geese</b> on the 23rd. On the
24th the wind turned north and the skies cleared, unfortunately, as the raptors
climbed high and were very difficult to spot against the blue sky. We did manage
to spot 195 of them, mostly <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Red-tailed </b>(66)
and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sharp-shinned Hawks</b> (62) but
also 16 <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">American Kestrels</b> and 10 <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Golden Eagles</b> were seen. 119 <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">White-winged Scoters</b> on the following
day was a record count for TLBO. On the 29th, without a warning from the
weather forecast, the wind was suddenly blowing from northwest. With the wind
came the first flight of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Tundra Swans</b>
(615) and 305 raptors (123 <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Red-tails</b>,
80 <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Rough-legged Hawks</b>, 51 <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sharp-shinns</b>, and 27 <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Northern Harriers</b> among others) were
counted too. On the 30th as the snow flew a few more raptors were sailing the
stormy nortwesterlies but no high counts were reached.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A seemingly black and white but actually wonderfully colorful Black-billed Magpie having some Burbot for breakfast</td></tr>
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Sharp-shinned Hawk - 14</div>
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Solitary Sandpiper - 1</div>
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Wilson's Snipe - 1</div>
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Boreal Owl - 35 (17)</div>
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Northern Saw-whet Owl - 2 (2)</div>
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Belted Kingfisher - 9</div>
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Downy Woodpecker - 1</div>
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Western Wood-Pewee - 4</div>
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Yellow-bellied Flycatcher - 3</div>
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Alder Flycatcher - 506</div>
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Least Flycatcher - 2</div>
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Hammond's Flycatcher - 8</div>
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Dusky Flycatcher - 4</div>
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Northern Shrike - 1 (1)</div>
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Warbling Vireo - 12</div>
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Gray Jay - 1</div>
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Black-capped Chickadee - 16 (1)</div>
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Boreal Chickadee - 3</div>
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Red-breasted Nuthatch - 3</div>
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Winter/Pacific Wren - 1 (1)</div>
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Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 69 (2)</div>
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Gray-cheeked Thrush - 10</div>
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Swainson's Thrush - 49</div>
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Hermit Thrush - 1 (1)</div>
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American Robin - 9</div>
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Varied Thrush - 3</div>
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Tennessee Warbler - 1</div>
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Orange-crowned Warbler - 149</div>
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Yellow Warbler - 504</div>
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Yellow-rumped Warbler - 177 (5)</div>
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Townsend's Warbler - 10</div>
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Blackpoll Warbler - 61</div>
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American Redstart - 25</div>
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Northern Waterthrush - 48</div>
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Common Yellowthroat - 82 (3)</div>
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Wilson's Warbler - 164 (1)</div>
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American Tree Sparrow - 21 (5)</div>
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Chipping Sparrow - 15</div>
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Savannah Sparrow - 17</div>
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Fox Sparrow - 17 (1)</div>
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Lincoln's Sparrow - 9 (1)</div>
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White-crowned Sparrow - 15</div>
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Golden-crowned Sparrow - 1</div>
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Slate-coloured Junco - 139 (9)</div>
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Rusty Blackbird - 10 (1)</div>
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Brown-headed Cowbird - 2</div>
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Purple Finch - 3</div>
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White-winged Crossbill - 2</div>
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Common Redpoll - 1</div>
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Pine Siskin - 303 (6)</div>
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Yukon Bird Observatorieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01097773125093983846noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3240098044528909962.post-49506585621536990102014-09-20T20:20:00.000-07:002014-09-20T20:23:37.972-07:00Teslin Lake update, September 20 2014<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The colors changed quickly, in less than a week, from all green to just about all yellow!</td></tr>
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The good bird movement continued from the early September
period into this mid-September period but just for a few days. The period
started with unsettled weather (meaning more rain) but quickly turned into
unseasonally nice and warm weather and after the 13th pretty much all the
migration came to a sudden halt. Towards the end the weather got lousy again
(meaning even more rain!) but the bird movement didn't pick up at all, quite
the opposite in fact. In the last five days we had four days with less than 10
birds banded!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This young Tennessee Warbler was a real surprise at the late date of Sept 16. Below two very different looking young male Sharp-shinned Hawks - the one on the left has the usual look whereas the finely striped one on the right has a pattern more associated with young Cooper's Hawk.</td></tr>
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The banding total
for the period was 234 birds with the following top five: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Slate-colored Junco</b> (51), <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Orange-crowned
Warbler</b> (24), <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Ruby-crowned Kinglet</b>
(22), <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Pine Siskin</b> (22) and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Yellow Warbler</b> (20). Three new species
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on the 14th, and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Downy Woodpecker</b>
and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Tennessee Warbler</b> both on the
16th. The Tennessee is a very late record for the Yukon although not the latest
ever. Even though they didn't make it to the top five, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">American Tree Sparrows</b> entered the scene strongly early in the
period and then, just like all the other birds, just disappeared. The current top five for the season is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Alder Flycatcher</b> (506), <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Yellow
Warbler</b> (504), <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Pine Siskin</b>
(297), <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Yellow-rumped Warbler</b> (172)
and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Wilson's Warbler</b> (163). The
number of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Yellow Warblers</b> is a new
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tail feather shape and pattern comparison between juvenile (L) and adult (R) Black-capped Chickadee</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">For some reason this young Northern Waterthrush hasn't molted (i.e. replaced) its greater coverts. This is a prime example showing how poor quality the juvenile feathers are to be this worn already at mid-September, and why the young birds need to replace those feathers before heading south.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A juvenile male Northern Harrier</td></tr>
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including 137 on the 11th (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">American
Kestrel</b> 54, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Northern Harrier</b> 42,
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Merlin</b> 8, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Peregrine Falcon</b> 4), 135 on the 12th (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sharp-shinned Hawk</b> 60, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">American
Kestrel</b> 21, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Peregrine Falcon</b> 5),
and 98 on the 13th (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sharp-shinned Hawk</b>
56, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">American Kestrel</b> 14, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Peregrine Falcon</b> 3). On the 12th four somewhat
late <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Swainson's Hawks</b> were seen as
well as the season's first <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Rough-legged
Hawk</b>. This is the first time all three Buteo species have been seen on the
same day at the observatory (incl. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Red-tailed
Hawk</b>)! The same early days had decent morning movements of songbirds,
primarily <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">American Robins</b>, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Varied Thrush</b> and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Yellow-rumped Warblers</b> but the numbers didn't climb over a couple
of hundred per species until the cold morning of the 17th when over 600
thrushes (330 <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Robins</b>, 70 <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Varied Thrush</b> and 250ish unidentified)
were counted. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This adult Horned Grebe molting into its winter-plumage has been sailing back and forth off the point for several days now.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A fly-by Common Merganser</td></tr>
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Other sightings of interest included a juvenile <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sanderling</b> from the 12th through the
14th, four early <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Mountain Bluebirds</b>
on the 14th as well as the season first <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Barrow's
Goldeneyes</b>, late juvenile <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Spotted
Sandpipers</b> and likewise a late male <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Purple
Finch</b> on the 16th, our earliest ever <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Yellow-billed
Loon</b>, a full breeding-plumaged adult, and our latest ever <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Olive-sided Flycatcher</b> on the 18th, and
finally the season's first <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Northern Hawk
Owl</b> on the 19th.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A juvenile Sanderling on the 12th</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of the flock of four Barrow's Goldeneyes on the 14th</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"How many clowns fit in a VW beetle?" How about squirrels in one cavity...?</td></tr>
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Here are the banding totals as of Sept 20 including birds
banded as part of the owling effort (the number in brackets is the number
banded since the last blog entry):</div>
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Sharp-shinned Hawk - 14 (6)</div>
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Solitary Sandpiper - 1</div>
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Wilson's Snipe - 1</div>
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Boreal Owl - 21 (5)</div>
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Belted Kingfisher - 9 (1)</div>
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Downy Woodpecker - 1 (1)</div>
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Western Wood-Pewee - 4 (2)</div>
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Yellow-bellied Flycatcher - 3</div>
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Alder Flycatcher - 506 (12)</div>
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Least Flycatcher - 2</div>
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Hammond's Flycatcher - 8 (1)</div>
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Dusky Flycatcher - 4 (1)</div>
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Warbling Vireo - 12</div>
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Gray Jay - 1 (1)</div>
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Black-capped Chickadee - 15 (2)</div>
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Boreal Chickadee - 3</div>
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Red-breasted Nuthatch - 3</div>
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Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 67 (22)</div>
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Gray-cheeked Thrush - 10</div>
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Swainson's Thrush - 49</div>
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American Robin - 9</div>
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Varied Thrush - 3</div>
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Tennessee Warbler - 1 (1)</div>
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Orange-crowned Warbler - 149 (24)</div>
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Yellow Warbler - 504 (20)</div>
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Yellow-rumped Warbler - 172 (16)</div>
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Townsend's Warbler - 10</div>
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Blackpoll Warbler - 61 (1)</div>
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American Redstart - 25</div>
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Northern Waterthrush - 48</div>
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Common Yellowthroat - 79 (8)</div>
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Wilson's Warbler - 163 (11)</div>
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American Tree Sparrow - 16 (14)</div>
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Chipping Sparrow - 15</div>
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Savannah Sparrow - 17</div>
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Fox Sparrow - 16 (3)</div>
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Lincoln's Sparrow - 8 (1)</div>
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White-crowned Sparrow - 15 (3)</div>
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Golden-crowned Sparrow - 1</div>
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Slate-coloured Junco - 130 (51)</div>
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Rusty Blackbird - 9 (5)</div>
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Brown-headed Cowbird - 2</div>
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Purple Finch - 3</div>
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White-winged Crossbill - 2</div>
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Common Redpoll - 1</div>
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Pine Siskin - 297 (22)</div>
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Total = 2490 (234) birds of 46 species</div>
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Yukon Bird Observatorieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01097773125093983846noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3240098044528909962.post-91117016201425696292014-09-10T21:43:00.000-07:002014-09-10T21:43:48.994-07:00Teslin Lake update, September 10 2014<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Moonset on a cold morning, Sept 9. Notice the fresh snow on the mountain.</td></tr>
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The first ten days of September were very variable with
weather including two and a half days of solid rain (the 5th-7th) which brought
the lake water up by more than 10cm and on the 8th the first subzero
temperatures as we opened that morning at -3˚C! Higher up the rain came as snow
so now the surrounding mountains have beautiful white caps. The last three days
also offered some nice and much welcomed sunshine.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ted Murphy-Kelly enjoying the rare warmth of sun</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This Alder Flycatcher received band number 2730-88888!</td></tr>
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When it wasn't raining and we were able to operate the
birds were on the move. During the period we had three over 100 bird days (106
on the 2nd, 141 on the 8th, and 105 on the 9th) and banded a total of 686
birds. The top five for the period was <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Yellow
Warbler</b> (187), <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Orange-crowned
Warbler</b> (98), <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Wilson's Warbler</b>
(64), <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Pine Siskin</b> (64) and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Alder Flycatcher</b> (60). The current top
five for the season is now <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Alder
Flycatcher</b> (494), <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Yellow Warbler</b>
(484), <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Pine Siskin</b> (275), <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Yellow-rumped Warbler</b> (156) and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Wilson's Warbler</b> (152). </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gray-cheeked Thrush have reached a new one season record with 10 banded so far</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Adult female Rusty Blackbird</td></tr>
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After the
miserable rain stopped and the weather cleared we opened the morning of the 8th
with a 85 bird net-round, mostly <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Orange-crowned
Warblers</b> and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Ruby-crowned Kinglets</b>!
The first <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Gray-cheeked Thrush</b> was
banded on the 2nd and the first <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Western
Wood-Pewee</b> on the 3rd. The steady good days have brought the numbers up so
that the season total as of Sept 10 is now the third highest of all the years -
something one wouldn't have believed to happen just a few weeks ago after such
a dismal start! We continued our owling under not so perfect conditions on the
5th and under perfect conditions on the 8th banding 8 <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Boreal Owls</b> on the latter night but not surprisingly none on the
former. The latter night we were also treated with a hooting <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Great Horned Owl</b> and a steady nocturnal
flight of Catharus thrushes including all the three Yukon species (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Swainson's, Gray-cheeked </b>and<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Hermit</b>)!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A flock of Greater White-fronted Geese passing by on a cold morning</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Migrating Townsend's Solitaire passing over the banding site</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of the very few Three-toed Woodpeckers seen so far</td></tr>
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The busy banding mornings meant that the observation and
particularly the visual migration counting effort suffered because all the personnel
were needed to be involved with the banding. The little migration counting that
was done showed that there was some notable <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Yellow-rumped Warbler</b> movement happening as well as decent numbers
of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Varied Thrushes</b> (over 100 were
counted on two mornings). 33 <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Thayer's
Gulls</b> were seen on the 1st and a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Harlequin
Duck</b> stopped briefly at the creek mouth that morning too. Another two flew
by on the 10th. Five <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Swainson's Hawks</b>
and 30 <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sharp-shinned Hawks</b> were
counted on the 2nd. Two more <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Swainson's</b>
were seen on the 4th as well as the season 1st, and possibly last, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Common Nighthawk</b>. A total of four <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Peregrines</b> were seen during the period
as well as the first <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Ospreys</b> and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Golden Eagles</b> (3 on the 9th). On the
lake early in the period up to four <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Parasitic
Jaegers</b> could be seen daily while <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Arctic
Terns</b> disappeared promptly and completely at the turn of the month. A full
breeding-plumaged adult <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sabine's Gull</b>
cruised the lake back and forth for a few hours on the 4th and the season first
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Snow Goose</b> was seen on the same day.
The counts of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Red-throated Loons</b>
reached double digits and on the 3rd there were just short of 100 <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Red-necked Grebes</b> visible from the
observatory.
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This Merlin stopped briefly right above the banding table. Lucky for the banding crew it didn't poop!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Freshly emerged Mourning Cloak also enjoys the sun!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A young Red Squirrel with a rose hip</td></tr>
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Here are the banding totals as of Sept 10 including birds
banded as part of the owling effort (the number in brackets is the number
banded since the last blog entry):</div>
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Sharp-shinned Hawk - 8 (5)</div>
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Solitary Sandpiper - 1</div>
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Wilson's Snipe - 1</div>
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Boreal Owl - 16 (8)</div>
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Belted Kingfisher - 8 (1)</div>
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Western Wood-Pewee - 2 (2)</div>
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Yellow-bellied Flycatcher - 3</div>
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Alder Flycatcher - 494 (60)</div>
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Least Flycatcher - 2</div>
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Hammond's Flycatcher - 7 (3)</div>
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Dusky Flycatcher - 3</div>
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Warbling Vireo - 12</div>
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Black-capped Chickadee - 13</div>
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Boreal Chickadee - 3 (1)</div>
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Red-breasted Nuthatch - 3 (1)</div>
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Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 45 (31)</div>
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Gray-cheeked Thrush - 10 (10)</div>
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Swainson's Thrush - 49 (8)</div>
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American Robin - 9</div>
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Varied Thrush - 3 (2)</div>
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Orange-crowned Warbler - 125 (98)</div>
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Yellow Warbler - 484 (187)</div>
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Yellow-rumped Warbler - 156 (35)</div>
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Townsend's Warbler - 10 (1)</div>
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Blackpoll Warbler - 60 (5)</div>
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American Redstart - 25</div>
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Northern Waterthrush - 48 (8)</div>
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Common Yellowthroat - 71 (32)</div>
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Wilson's Warbler - 152 (64)</div>
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American Tree Sparrow - 2</div>
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Chipping Sparrow - 15 (1)</div>
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Savannah Sparrow - 17 (6)</div>
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Fox Sparrow - 13 (11)</div>
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Lincoln's Sparrow - 7 (1)</div>
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White-crowned Sparrow - 12 (5)</div>
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Golden-crowned Sparrow - 1</div>
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Slate-coloured Junco - 79 (33)</div>
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Rusty Blackbird - 4 (3)</div>
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Brown-headed Cowbird - 2</div>
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Purple Finch - 3</div>
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White-winged Crossbill - 2</div>
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Common Redpoll - 1</div>
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Pine Siskin - 275 (64)</div>
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Total = 2256 (686) birds of 43 species</div>
<br />Yukon Bird Observatorieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01097773125093983846noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3240098044528909962.post-55809876991301908492014-09-01T13:30:00.003-07:002014-09-01T13:30:37.016-07:00Teslin Lake update, August 31 2014<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Volunteers Sarah Nägl (L) and Ariel Lenske (R) trying to figure out what the heck is this bird? Answer, a juvenile Common Redpoll without red poll.</td></tr>
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Welcome to the first blog entry of TLBO's 2014 fall
season. First we want to apologize for the lack of blog entries but we've had
certain difficulties like no internet.</div>
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The season was opened a couple of days late due to other
commitments of all the staff members. The lake water was and has been
relatively high so that the sandbars at the mouth of Ten Mile Creek have just
recently become visible and bad weather has hindered the operation more than on
any other year. We've already lost six full mornings and parts of many other to
rain and wind! On the plus side we've had two great long term volunteers -
Ariel Lenske of Cowichan Bay, BC, spent three weeks with us and Sarah Nägl of
Berlin, Germany, is still holding on and seems determined to stay into October!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A juvenile Brown-headed Cowbird - only the 2nd ever banded at TLBO</td></tr>
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It has also been a very slow start for the season. The
missed netting hours of course effect the number of birds banded but even when
the weather did cooperate the going was slow early in the season. The migration
finally picked up on Aug 20 and since then we've had many mornings around and
over 100 birds banded including 224 banded on Aug 23. In spite of the good
numbers lately the total is still less than on this date on the previous
poorest year! As expected <b>Alder Flycatcher</b> (434) leads the way followed by
<b>Yellow Warbler</b> (297), <b>Pine Siskin</b> (211), <b>Yellow-rumped</b> (121) and <b>Wilson's
Warbler</b> (88). <b>Pine Siskin</b> has been the surprise species of the season as the
current total is already twice the previous season high and siskin flocks
continue to roam the area. The most interesting captures have been the
observatory's 2nd and 3rd banded <b>Brown-headed Cowbirds</b> on Aug 7 and a
<b>Golden-crowned Sparrow</b>, the 2nd ever banded in fall, on Aug 21. This season
we've also put in some regular, weekly, effort in owl banding. Besides just
playing a playback at the regular netting area we also set a site in some
conifers higher up on the slope and away from the lake. This has so far
resulted banding of eight <b>Boreal Owls</b>.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pine Siskin - the current headline maker!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our volunteers and the pile of used bird bags after 224 birds were banded on Aug 23</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wilson's Snipe is almost all bill!</td></tr>
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No actual rarities have been seen so far and visible
migration has been very slow too. A nearly complete lack of migrating raptors
and Thayer's Gulls is baffling. On Aug 27 over 3300 <b>Greater White-fronted Geese</b>
were counted flying by the observatory as well as a lone <b>Swainson's Hawk</b>.
Another one passed by the previous day. In the last couple of weeks species
like <b>Parasitic Jaeger</b> and <b>Red-throated Loon</b> have become a regular sight on the
lake and on the land species like <b>Rusty Blackbird</b>, <b>American Pipit</b> and
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there has been higher number of <b>Red-necked Phalaropes</b> seen than the average. Four
sighted <b>Black-backed Woodpeckers</b> is a higher count than usual. Meanwhile we've
seen only two <b>Three-toed Woodpeckers</b> and <b>White-winged Crossbills</b> have
mysteriously almost disappeared after a summer of abundance.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A Merlin flying right over the banding table</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This Northern Pintail has been living in the pond for a couple of weeks now!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The most exciting and rare sighting of the year has not been a bird but this leucistic Porcupine. Looks like a tiny spiny Polar Bear, doesn't it?</td></tr>
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Here are the banding totals as of Aug 31 (including birds
banded as part of the owling effort):</div>
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Sharp-shinned Hawk - 3</div>
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Solitary Sandpiper - 1</div>
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Wilson's Snipe - 1</div>
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Boreal Owl - 8</div>
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Belted Kingfisher - 7</div>
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Yellow-bellied Flycatcher - 3</div>
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Alder Flycatcher - 434</div>
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Least Flycatcher - 2</div>
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Hammond's Flycatcher - 4</div>
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Dusky Flycatcher - 3</div>
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Warbling Vireo - 12</div>
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Black-capped Chickadee - 13</div>
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Boreal Chickadee - 2</div>
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Red-breasted Nuthatch - 2</div>
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Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 14</div>
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Swainson's Thrush - 41</div>
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American Robin - 9</div>
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Varied Thrush - 1</div>
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Orange-crowned Warbler - 27</div>
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Yellow Warbler - 297</div>
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Yellow-rumped Warbler - 121</div>
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Townsend's Warbler - 9</div>
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Blackpoll Warbler - 55</div>
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American Redstart - 25</div>
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Northern Waterthrush - 40</div>
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Common Yellowthroat - 39</div>
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Wilson's Warbler - 88</div>
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American Tree Sparrow - 2</div>
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Chipping Sparrow - 14</div>
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Savannah Sparrow - 11</div>
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Fox Sparrow - 2</div>
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Lincoln's Sparrow - 6</div>
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White-crowned Sparrow - 7</div>
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Golden-crowned Sparrow - 1</div>
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Slate-coloured Junco - 46</div>
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Rusty Blackbird - 1</div>
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Brown-headed Cowbird - 2</div>
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Purple Finch - 3</div>
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White-winged Crossbill - 2</div>
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Common Redpoll - 1</div>
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Pine Siskin - 211</div>
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Total = 1570 birds of 41 species</div>
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Yukon Bird Observatorieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01097773125093983846noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3240098044528909962.post-31382295730068257722014-05-04T18:42:00.001-07:002014-05-04T18:42:43.141-07:00Albert Creek Bird Observatory Spring 2014 - April 23 to May 4<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">Once
again this year we were challenged</span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">by the weather. The first week was spent setting up the
station with two feet of snow still on the ground. The first few days brought
few birds and plenty of snow. Most of our observations consisted of the “winter
finch” and other “nomadics” category such as White-winged Crossbills, Common
Redpolls, Pine Siskin and Bohemian Waxwing. Ruby-crowned Kinglets were evident
and the local population of Boreal and Black-capped Chickadees were very busy. There
were at least two pairs of Trumpeter Swans working the marsh and oxe bow area
and possibly three. Ducks were few and far between as things remained ice
bound. Tundra Swan and Greater white-fronted Goose have been low in numbers as
they are expected at this time period. The familiar “big push of sparrows” is
yet to happen as we have had dribs and drabs of Slate-colored Junco, American
Tree Sparrow and Gambel’s White-crowned Sparrow. Fox Sparrows have been scarce.
The first Myrtle Warbler was only detected on May 3<sup>rd</sup>. Species detected, slowly increased in week two
bringing such familiar songsters as Varied Thrush. The first Hermit Thrush was
detected on April 28<sup>th</sup> as it was banded while the first Rusty
Blackbird was observed. Albert Creek’s star bird is still cooking for someone.
The Barred Owl has been heard daily. As of May 4<sup>th</sup> the Rusty
Blackbird crowd increased to 12 with a pair being banded.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">Weather
changed in the second week bringing frozen nights but bright blue skies during
the day. The roblem was north winds prevailed with a brief change on May 3<sup>rd</sup>
when south winds prevailed. It has been a late spring so far for species and
numbers of species. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">Thank you to our volunteers Susan Drury and Maxime Beauchamps for their help this past week, particularly with the arduous task of setting of the station.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">Birds
banded from April 23<sup>rd</sup> – May 4<sup>th</sup><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">Black-capped Chickadee – 1</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">Boreal Chickadee – 11<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">Ruby-crowned Kinglet – 20</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">Hermit Thrush -1</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">Varied Thrush – 1</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18.399999618530273px;">Myrtle Warbler – 1</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18.399999618530273px;">American Tree Sparrow – 12</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18.399999618530273px;">White-crowned Sparrow -2</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">Slate-co</span><span style="line-height: 115%;">lored Junco – 11</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18.399999618530273px;">Rusty Blackbird – 2</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;">Common Redpoll – 4</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">Total
= 66 birds of 11 species<span style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
Yukon Bird Observatorieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01097773125093983846noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3240098044528909962.post-65302491904857408292013-11-04T19:19:00.001-08:002013-11-04T20:40:02.392-08:00Teslin Lake - end of the season 2013<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Warmer than average fall was evident in just small amount of snow on the surrounding mountains and none on the lake level!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">And
so yet another season at TLBO came to an end. There is not much to be written
about the last two weeks mostly because yours truly spent a significant portion
of it in bed, sick. After mid-month there were still good numbers of <strong>Bohemian Waxwings</strong>
around and a few gulls were patrolling the lake. The last day, Oct 31, a family
of <strong>Trumpeter Swans</strong> was seen as well as a juvenile <strong>Common Loon</strong>. Of course, the
local family of <strong>Gray Jays </strong>and the usual <strong>Black-billed Magpies</strong> and <strong>Common Ravens</strong>
were around and about. Small number of <strong>Common Redpolls</strong> were on the move and one
flock had a <strong>Pine Siskin</strong> in the tow. One <strong>Golden Eagle</strong> was seen heading south as
well.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I can boogie!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Youngsters Thayer's (front) and Herring Gull</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A family of Trumpeter Swans on the cold foggy lake</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Below are the season's raptor counts, species organized in
the order of abundance. Notice that these numbers include both the birds
observed flying by the observatory in migration flight as well as birds just
hanging around. Bald Eagle gets the biggest gain from this as there were a few local
birds present throughout the season.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Sharp-shinned Hawk 849</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Red-tailed Hawk<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>447</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Northern Harrier<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>299</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Golden Eagle<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>293</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">American Kestrel<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>178</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Bald Eagle<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>160</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Rough-legged Hawk<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>126</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Merlin<span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>76</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Osprey<span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>72</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Peregrine Falcon<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>51</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Northern Goshawk<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>18</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Swainson's Hawk<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>3</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">= 2572 raptors identified to species (+ 100+ unidentified ones)</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sharp-shinned Hawk was the most common raptor this season. Photo from August.</td></tr>
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Finally, I'd like to thank a few people for making the season successful. First and foremost all of our financial supporters - without you there wouldn't be anyone doing anything at TLBO! The long term volunteers Abril Heredia and Sarah Coulthart put in a lot of time, day after day, and made things go so much smoother. Doug Martens provided the BIC with a comfortable accommodation once again and Ted Murphy-Kelly provided the volunteers with a cozy tent accommodation at the site and all the things one needs for day to day life in the outdoors. Shyloh van Delft for organizing a fund-raiser in Tagish in August. The Schonewille's for storing gear and Ben S and Nick Guenette for the set-up at the start of the season. And of course, all the other volunteers and visitors - the list is too long to mention everyone by name. THANK YOU everyone!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Parting shot - a grouse was here!</td></tr>
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<br />Yukon Bird Observatorieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01097773125093983846noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3240098044528909962.post-40851136680775852202013-10-17T23:31:00.000-07:002013-10-17T23:35:53.336-07:00Teslin Lake update - October 15<br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">There was still a good number of passerines around early
October as there were kinglets, chickadees, sparrows and even some warblers
flitting in the bushes of TLBO. Unfortunately the banding season came to an
unexpected halt after Oct 2nd when the promised help didn't show up. A few
nets were opened every once in a while for short periods of time when visible
migration was very slow and the very last banding effort was made on Oct 11
when Ted Murphy-Kelly came to help out with taking down the station. That and the following day
we managed to pack the tents and all the netting related gear except for the
canopy net structure. As for the birds banded, 104 more birds received some
jewellery in October. Perhaps the most exciting ones were the two <strong>Northern
Waterthrushes</strong> (Oct 1st and Oct 3rd, one of them staying until the 5th!) as they were
the first October records for TLBO. The species is normally quite uncommon
already in early September! The season 2nd <strong>Gray-cheeked</strong> and <strong>Hermit Thrushes</strong>
were banded on the 2nd. The final season top five is as follows - <strong>Alder Flycatcher</strong> 770, <strong>Dark-eyed Junco</strong> 341, <strong>Yellow Warbler</strong> 333, <strong>Yellow-rumped Warbler</strong> 163 and <strong>Ruby-crowned Kinglet</strong> 125. Overall it was the second poorest year (of the full
operation years) in terms of number of birds banded at TLBO. Five species
were banded in record low numbers - <strong>Sharp-shinned Hawk, Hermit Thrush, Wilson's
Warbler, White-crowned Sparrow </strong>and<strong> Common Redpoll</strong>. Three species were banded in
record high numbers - <strong>Northern Flicker, Warbling Vireo</strong> and <strong>Cedar Waxwing</strong>. Other
species with higher than average numbers included <strong>Yellow-bellied </strong>and <strong>Alder
Flycatcher, Swainson's Thrush </strong>and<strong> Dark-eyed Junco.</strong> </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A happy bander (Ted Murphy-Kelly) with the last two birds of the season - a Boreal Chickadee staying here and a Wilson's Warbler on it's way to UNAM Jardin Botanico en Ciudad de Mexico (or somewhere thereabouts)!<br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Early to mid-October is normally one of the busiest and
most exciting times at TLBO with visible migration and rarities. However, this
year no rarities were spotted and the migration for the most part was pretty
disappointing. The last big day of "dickie bird" migration was Oct
1st when nearly 1500 <strong>American Robins</strong> were counted alongside 1300 other
passerines including 90 <strong>Yellow-rumped Warblers</strong>, 270 <strong>Pine Siskins</strong> and an
observatory record of 296 <strong>Rusty Blackbirds</strong>! 69 <strong>Rusties</strong> on the 7th was the last
high count for that species. 215 <strong>Bohemian Waxwings</strong> flew by on the 4th and about
100 roamed the area on the 15th. Usually the big thing at this time of the year
are the thousands of swans passing by. This year no such thing has been seen.
So far the busiest swan day was the 10th when about 800, mostly <strong>Tundra Swans</strong>, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>were counted. 215 <strong>Trumpeter Swans</strong> were seen
the next day and another 150 were tallied on the 15th. Other waterfowl of
interest during the period included a late flight of 112 <strong>Lesser Scaup</strong> and
a lone late <strong>Snow Goose</strong> on the 10th and three <strong>Harlequin Ducks</strong> on the 11th.
October is typically the time of eagles as well. This year there have been very
few <strong>Bald Eagles</strong> seen, perhaps because many left earlier, but it has been quite
good with <strong>Golden Eagles</strong>. The highest day counts so far have been 31 on the 4th,
37 on the 5th and observatory record 86 on the stormy day of the 9th. Finally,
birds behind the usual departure dates included a <strong>Bonaparte's Gull</strong> on the 5th
and a <strong>Wilson's Warbler</strong> on the 12th.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This flock of 47 Trumpeter Swans is an exception to the rule that only Tundra Swans fly high and in big flocks</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This Orange-crowned Warbler in a Cottonwood probably wishes it was already in a Magnolia-tree instead!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ruffed Grouse have just recently started their fall drumming season</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chris Sukha: "ahh yes, I confirm, it is a speck!" Photo Abril Heredia.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">This season's longest serving volunteer, Sarah Coulthart,
left us on the 2nd. Thank you Sarah for all your help and we applaud your
endurance as you now hold the observatory record for most consecutive days spent
in a tent at the site! The same day saw another volunteer, a published author
Chris Sukha (The Mini-Mentor Guide To Birdwatching for Beginners) leave as
well. Chris had spent a full season at Mackenzie Nature Observatory in BC and
after Mackenzie season ended he came and helped us out for a week. Thanks Chris
for spotting all the specks in the sky!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Sharp-shinned Hawk - 6</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Solitary Sandpiper - 2</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Spotted Sandpiper - 1</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Belted Kingfisher - 2</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 1</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">American Three-toed Woodpecker - 1</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Northern Flicker - 3</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Western Wood-Pewee - 4</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Yellow-bellied Flycatcher - 11</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Alder Flycatcher - 770</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Least Flycatcher - 6</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Hammond's Flycatcher - 12</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Dusky Flycatcher - 3</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Northern Shrike - 1</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Warbling Vireo - 48</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Black-capped Chickadee -31</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Boreal Chickadee - 23 (10)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Red-breasted Nuthatch -6</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Golden-crowned Kinglet - 1</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 125 (18)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Gray-cheeked Thrush - 2 (1)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Swainson's Thrush - 55</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Hermit Thrush - 2 (1)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">American Robin - 4</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Varied Thrush - 5</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">American Pipit - 2</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Cedar Waxwing - 8</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Tennessee Warbler - 1</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Orange-crowned Warbler - 124 (9)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Yellow Warbler - 333 (3)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Magnolia Warbler - 1</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Yellow-rumped Warbler - 163 (13)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Townsend's Warbler - 7</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Blackpoll Warbler - 87</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">American Redstart - 33</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Northern Waterthrush - 46 (2)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">MacGillivray's Warbler - 1</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Common Yellowthroat - 64</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Wilson's Warbler - 122 (7)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">American Tree Sparrow - 19 (11)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Chipping Sparrow - 20</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Savannah Sparrow - 18</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Fox Sparrow - 7 (1)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Lincoln's Sparrow - 9</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">White-crowned Sparrow - 16</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Golden-crowned Sparrow - 1</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Dark-eyed Junco - 341 (20)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Rusty Blackbird - 14 (6)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Purple Finch - 1</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">White-winged Crossbill - 5 (2)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Pine Siskin - 8</span></div>
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<br />Yukon Bird Observatorieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01097773125093983846noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3240098044528909962.post-82706932904488186942013-10-05T22:54:00.000-07:002013-10-05T22:54:05.584-07:00Teslin Lake update - September 30<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In September Yukon turns Yellow!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The last third of September was very quiet time with the
nets - even when we could operate them. The weather was very unsettled with
lots of rain and especially wind, and on many days we had the nets open for
just an hour or so and usually not all the nets either. As a result, only 107
birds were banded. 35 of those were <strong>Dark-eyed Juncos</strong> and 30 <strong>Ruby-crowned
Kinglets</strong>. A <strong>Hammond's Flycatcher</strong> on the 23rd and an <strong>Alder Flycatcher</strong> on the
25th were both a little bit on the late side.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Most of the Bald Eagles seen as part of the record flights were immatures of various ages</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of the 51 Peregrine Falcons seen this season (a juvenile)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ospreys were seen on most days but usually in small numbers</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">No
rare or even uncommon birds were seen but there was lots of action in the sky
especially early in the period. Most of the good flights were those of <strong>raptors</strong>.
On the 21st 149 <strong>raptors</strong> were seen including a new observatory day-record of 30
<strong>Bald Eagles</strong>. The next day the raptor tally was 278 this time including 185
<strong>Sharp-shinned Hawks</strong> which also was a new day-record. Luckily most of the raptor
movement was in the afternoon since in the morning we were almost overwhelmed
by the flight of <strong>American Robins</strong> and other passerines. A total count for
<strong>Robin/Varied Thrush</strong> (about 90% Robins) was 5900! 1700 other <strong>passerines</strong>,
including identifications of 85 <strong>Bohemian Waxwings</strong>, 164 <strong>Rusty Blackbirds</strong> and 67
<strong>Pine Siskins</strong>, were also tallied and as if that wasn't enough somewhere in
between we noticed almost 400 <strong>Canada Geese</strong> fly by. On the 23rd we counted 125
<strong>raptors</strong>, 800 <strong>Robins</strong> and 156 <strong>Rusty Blackbirds</strong> but the day will really be
remembered from its 1025 <strong>Pacific Loons</strong> - a count far exceeding the previous
record. A cold and strong northwest wind was blowing on the 24th and it brought
another 253 <strong>raptors</strong> with it. <strong>Bald Eagles</strong> reached the count of 30 again while
other good tallies included 118 <strong>Sharp-shinned Hawks</strong> and 46 <strong>Red-tailed Hawks</strong>.
The day was also the first one of the fall with some <strong>swan</strong> movement (200) and
two nice flocks of <strong>Snow Geese</strong> totalling 116 birds were seen as well. All this
activity was followed by five days of pretty much complete nothingness until on
the 30th birds were moving again. That day 280 <strong>raptors</strong>, including 44 <strong>Golden Eagles</strong>,
112 <strong>Sharp-shinned Hawks</strong> and 22 <strong>Rough-legged Hawks</strong>, were counted. Other big
birds spotted heading south included 400 <strong>Tundra Swans</strong> and 111 <strong>Sandhill Cranes</strong>.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pacific Loons, Pacific Loons!!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A flock of Snow Geese approaching</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A small flock of Sandhill Cranes passing overhead</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This late Townsend's Warbler on the 25th almost managed to slip by without being documented</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">On the morning of the 30th bear tracks led from the creek mouth through the banding site. This present was left at net #18!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Donald (R), a Scottish traveller, loved the site so that he spent two days with us. He had a wish list of two species, Golden Eagle and Peregrine Falcon, and he got to see both!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">On the 28th we all headed to Whitehorse for the SOYBO
annual get-together. It was a great party and thanks for Ted and Hollie for
hosting it. The next morning we brought Abril to the airport and said good byes
before heading back to TLBO. Thank you Abril for yet another great season!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Banding totals as of Sept 30 (the # banded since the last
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Sharp-shinned Hawk - 6 (2)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Solitary Sandpiper - 2</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Spotted Sandpiper - 1</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Belted Kingfisher - 2</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 1</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">American Three-toed Woodpecker - 1</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Northern Flicker - 3</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Western Wood-Pewee - 4</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Yellow-bellied Flycatcher - 11</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Alder Flycatcher - 770 (1)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Least Flycatcher - 6</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Hammond's Flycatcher - 12 (1)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Dusky Flycatcher - 3</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Northern Shrike - 1</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Warbling Vireo - 48</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Black-capped Chickadee -31 (3)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Boreal Chickadee - 13</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Red-breasted Nuthatch -6</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Golden-crowned Kinglet - 1</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 107 (30)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Gray-cheeked Thrush - 1</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Swainson's Thrush - 55</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Hermit Thrush - 1</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">American Robin - 4</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Varied Thrush - 5</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">American Pipit - 2</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Cedar Waxwing - 8</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Tennessee Warbler - 1</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Orange-crowned Warbler - 115 (6)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Yellow Warbler - 330 (3)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Magnolia Warbler - 1</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Yellow-rumped Warbler - 150 (6)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Townsend's Warbler - 7</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Blackpoll Warbler - 87</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">American Redstart - 33</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Northern Waterthrush - 44</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">MacGillivray's Warbler - 1</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Common Yellowthroat - 64</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Wilson's Warbler - 115 (11)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">American Tree Sparrow - 8 (2)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Chipping Sparrow - 20</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Savannah Sparrow - 18 (2)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Fox Sparrow - 6 (1)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Lincoln's Sparrow - 9</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">White-crowned Sparrow - 16</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Golden-crowned Sparrow - 1</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Dark-eyed Junco - 321 (35)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Rusty Blackbird - 8 (3)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Purple Finch - 1</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">White-winged Crossbill - 3</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Pine Siskin - 8</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">= 2473 (107) birds, 51 species</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Male American Three-toed Woodpecker - the 1st ever banded at TLBO!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The mid-September period at TLBO was an exciting one
particularly with the migration watch. The weather again wasn't our friend and
so the banding totals remained rather low. However, one bird out of the 257
banded, an <strong>American Three-toed Woodpecker</strong> on the 12th, was of special interest
as it was, quite surprisingly mind you, the first ever banded at TLBO! Other
highlights from the nets included a <strong>Dusky Flycatcher</strong> and a latish <strong>Swainson's
Thrush</strong>, both also on the 12th. The top five for the period was <strong>Dark-eyed Junco</strong>
(106), <strong>Ruby-crowned Kinglet</strong> (41), <strong>Orange-crowned Warbler</strong> (21), <strong>Yellow-rumped
Warbler</strong> (17) and <strong>Yellow Warbler</strong> (16).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The
most exciting bird of the period was a beautiful full-tailed adult <strong>Long-tailed
Jaeger</strong> seen on the 11th. To everyone's surprise, the bird was spotted again on
the 12th and later seen departing towards the east over the mountains instead
of the west and the Pacific! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">As the weather was turning colder more northern birds
started to head south. New species for the season were <strong>Black-backed Woodpecker</strong>
on the 11th, <strong>Tundra Swan</strong> and <strong>Long-tailed Duck</strong> on the 14th, <strong>Rough-legged Hawk</strong> , <strong>Glaucous Gull</strong> and
<strong>Mountain Bluebird</strong> on the 18th and <strong>Northern Hawk Owl</strong> on the 19th.</span></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;">At least six <strong>Parasitic Jaegers</strong>, including two rare
dark-morph ones, were seen prowling the lake on the 11th. The same day count of
29 <strong>Red-throated Loons</strong> was just three short of our day record for the species.
During the second half of the period we had several busy migration days. On the
15th 235 <strong>Canada Geese</strong> flew by as well as 42 <strong>Red-tailed Hawks</strong> (70 raptors in total).
Thanks to the poor visibility, low hanging clouds and strong south wind on the
18th many Pacific-bound birds like 150 <strong>Pacific Loons</strong> and 55 <strong>Thayer's Gulls</strong> were
forced to fly low enough for us to spot them. The same day record tying 11
<strong>Peregrine Falcons</strong> were seen. Nine more followed the next day and six more the
day after - wow! The 19th was quite a day with 5200 <strong>American Robins/Varied
Thrushes</strong> and 1550 small passerines (mostly unidentified but identifications including
43 <strong>American Pipits</strong>, 53 <strong>Yellow-rumped Warblers</strong> and 114 <strong>Rusty Blackbirds</strong>)!! Also
seen were 32 <strong>Northern Harriers</strong> (74 raptors in total). Finally, a jaw-dropping
flock of 190 <strong>Rusty Blackbirds</strong> was foraging on the shoreline on the 20th!</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Adult Thayer's Gull. Photo Abril Heredia.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A flock of Robins passing by. Photo Abril Heredia.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Susan Drury (R), a volunteer of many years at Albert Creek, made her first visit to TLBO. Here she is showing the waterbirds of the lake to one of our visitors. Photo Abril Heredia.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Abril photographing specklebellies</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Solitary Sandpiper - 2</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Spotted Sandpiper - 1</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Belted Kingfisher - 2</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 1</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">American Three-toed Woodpecker - 1 (1)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Northern Flicker - 3</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Western Wood-Pewee - 4</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Yellow-bellied Flycatcher - 11</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Alder Flycatcher - 769 (8)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Least Flycatcher - 6</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Hammond's Flycatcher - 11 (1)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Dusky Flycatcher - 3 (1)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Northern Shrike - 1</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Warbling Vireo - 48</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Black-capped Chickadee - 28</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Boreal Chickadee - 13 (4)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Red-breasted Nuthatch -6</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Golden-crowned Kinglet - 1</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 77 (41)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Gray-cheeked Thrush - 1</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Swainson's Thrush - 55 (1)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Hermit Thrush - 1</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">American Robin - 4</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Varied Thrush - 5</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">American Pipit - 2</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Cedar Waxwing - 8</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Tennessee Warbler - 1</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Orange-crowned Warbler - 109 (21)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Yellow Warbler - 327 (16)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Magnolia Warbler - 1</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Yellow-rumped Warbler - 144 (17)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Townsend's Warbler - 7</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Blackpoll Warbler - 87 (4)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">American Redstart - 33 (1)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Northern Waterthrush - 44 (1)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">MacGillivray's Warbler - 1</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Common Yellowthroat - 64 (9)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Wilson's Warbler - 104 (13)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">American Tree Sparrow - 6 (4)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Chipping Sparrow - 20</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Savannah Sparrow - 16 (2)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Fox Sparrow - 5</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Lincoln's Sparrow - 9 (1)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">White-crowned Sparrow - 16</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Golden-crowned Sparrow - 1</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Dark-eyed Junco - 286 (106)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Rusty Blackbird - 5 (2)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Purple Finch - 1</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">White-winged Crossbill - 3</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Pine Siskin - 8</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">= 2366 (257) birds, 51 species</span></div>
<br />Yukon Bird Observatorieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01097773125093983846noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3240098044528909962.post-10943707254896533592013-09-13T22:21:00.001-07:002013-09-13T22:21:17.095-07:00Teslin Lake update - Sept 10<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nice morning view across the lake</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The weather turned windy early September and with that our
banding peak was cut short and slow times began. On the 2nd we banded 86 birds
but otherwise most days the totals were well below 30. The biggest banding
highlight was the observatory's first fall season <strong>Golden-crowned Sparrow</strong> on the
6th. Other notable birds banded included yet another <strong>Northern Flicker</strong> on the
4th, a <strong>Golden-crowned Kinglet</strong> on the 5th, two <strong>American Pipits</strong>, one each on the
6th and the 7th, and finally the season 1st <strong>Rusty Blackbirds</strong> (three so far).
During the first ten days of the month 288 birds were banded 117 of which were
<strong>Dark-eyed Juncos</strong>. Other common ones included <strong>Alder Flycatcher</strong> (34), <strong>Yellow
Warbler</strong> (25), <strong>Yellow-rumped Warbler</strong> (22) and <strong>Ruby-crowned Kinglet</strong> (18). The
current season top five is as follows: <strong>Alder Flycatcher</strong> 761, <strong>Yellow Warbler</strong> 311,
<strong>Dark-eyed Junco</strong> 180, <strong>Yellow-rumped Warbler</strong> 127 and <strong>Wilson's Warbler</strong> 91.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The observatory's first fall season Golden-crowned Sparrow</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The season 1st Golden-crowned Kinglet</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">American Pipit is a common bird but not caught in the nets very often</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Most of the Yellow Warblers that are still around are adults, just like this female foraging in the willows by the banding table</td></tr>
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Since the high winds have been mostly coming from the
south and the temperatures have been quite high, the visually detectable fly-by
migration has been fairly slow as well. There was a big movement of <strong>Greater
White-fronted Geese</strong> on the 1st but the TLBO staff missed it completely as it
occurred in the afternoon and evening after the site had been vacated for the
day. Over 1500 were seen by Teslin residents and area fishermen combined. A few
hawks and falcons, mostly <strong>Sharp-shinned Hawks</strong>, <strong>Northern Harriers</strong>, and <strong>American
Kestrels</strong>, have been on the move but the day counts are still in the low tens.
Six <strong>Merlin</strong>s on the 5th was a good count for that species. Fairly good numbers
of <strong>White-winged Crossbills</strong> have been on the move with counts of several tens on
most mornings.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A juvenile Northern Harrier passing by the observatory</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The season 1st Three-toed Woodpecker landed briefly right next to the banding table</td></tr>
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As the lake has been going down so has the water level in our
pond and now all we have left is a small mud puddle favored by <strong>Rusty Blackbirds</strong>
and <strong>American Pipits</strong> and early in the month a few <strong>Solitary Sandpipers</strong>. A
juvenile <strong>Red-necked Phalarope</strong> spent a few hours there on the 2nd and two
juvenile <strong>Pectoral Sandpipers</strong> did the same on the 5th.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A Juvenile Red-necked Phalarope having a lunch in the pond</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of the two juvenile Pectoral Sandpipers was an unusually pale individual for that species</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Young male (front) and young female (back) Rusty Blacbird</td></tr>
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On the lake side, there
has been a daily show of <strong>Parasitic Jaegers</strong> with up to four birds per day
including one of the uncommon dark-morph. The two <strong>Sabine's Gulls</strong> stayed until
the 5th but the biggest rarity of the whole period was a juvenile <strong>Ring-billed
Gull</strong>, the first Teslin area record, that showed up on the 3rd and stayed until
the 9th. A <strong>Harlequin Duck</strong> stopped by briefly in the morning of the 10th.
Finally, the season first <strong>Three-toed Woodpeckers</strong> were seen on the 6th and late
ones for the season were represented by an <strong>Arctic Tern</strong> on the 7th and a <strong>Common
Nighthawk</strong> on the 10th.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A juvenile Ring-billed Gull - the first for the observatory!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sarah Coulthard (L) and Gwen Baluss (R) discussing the finer nuances of Orange-crowned Warbler identification. Photo<span style="font-size: small;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sarah having an encounter with a Porcupine. The one with more and sharper quills gets the right-of-way on the bridge. Photo <span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">© </span>Abril Heredia<span style="font-size: small;">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Banding totals as of Sept 10 (the # banded since the last
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Solitary Sandpiper - 2</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Spotted Sandpiper - 1</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Belted Kingfisher - 2</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 1</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Northern Flicker - 3 (1)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Western Wood-Pewee - 4</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Yellow-bellied Flycatcher - 11</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Alder Flycatcher - 761 (34)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Least Flycatcher - 6</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Hammond's Flycatcher - 10 (1)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Dusky Flycatcher - 2</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Northern Shrike - 1</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Warbling Vireo - 48 (2)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Black-capped Chickadee - 28 (5)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Boreal Chickadee - 9 (3)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Red-breasted Nuthatch -6</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Golden-crowned Kinglet - 1 (1)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 36 (18)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Gray-cheeked Thrush - 1</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Swainson's Thrush - 54</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Hermit Thrush - 1</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">American Robin - 4</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Varied Thrush - 5 (4)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">American Pipit - 2 (2)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Cedar Waxwing - 8</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Tennessee Warbler - 1</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Orange-crowned Warbler - 88 (17)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Yellow Warbler - 311 (25)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Magnolia Warbler - 1</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Yellow-rumped Warbler - 127 (22)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Townsend's Warbler - 7</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Blackpoll Warbler - 83 (5)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">American Redstart - 32 (1)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Northern Waterthrush - 43</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">MacGillivray's Warbler - 1</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Common Yellowthroat - 55 (12)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Wilson's Warbler - 91 (3)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">American Tree Sparrow - 2 (1)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Chipping Sparrow - 20 (2)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Savannah Sparrow - 14 (3)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Fox Sparrow - 5</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Lincoln's Sparrow - 8</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">White-crowned Sparrow - 16 (4)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Golden-crowned Sparrow - 1 (1)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Dark-eyed Junco - 180 (117)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Rusty Blackbird - 3 (3)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Purple Finch - 1</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">White-winged Crossbill - 3</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Pine Siskin - 8 (1)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">= 2109 (288) birds, 50 species</span></div>
Yukon Bird Observatorieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01097773125093983846noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3240098044528909962.post-24545025300584761192013-09-01T00:40:00.000-07:002013-09-01T00:40:02.368-07:00Teslin Lake update - Aug 31st
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The bird migration activity has picked up significantly
since the last blog entry. Over the last week we've banded 735 birds, including
155 on Aug 25, 114 on Aug 26 and 217 on Aug 28 (the 2nd highest day total in
fall in the observatory's history). As expected, the majority of the catch has
been <strong>Alder Flycatchers</strong> (354) and <strong>Yellow Warblers</strong> (132) followed by <strong>Orange-crowned
Warbler</strong> (47), <strong>Yellow-rumped Warbler</strong> (42) and <strong>Dark-eyed Junco</strong> (39) . The current
top five for the season is <strong>Alder Flycatcher</strong> 727 , <strong>Yellow Warbler</strong> 286, <strong>Yellow-rumped
Warbler</strong> 105, <strong>Wilson's Warbler</strong> 88, and <strong>Blackpoll Warbler</strong> 78. The most exciting
bird banded was a young <strong>Magnolia Warbler</strong> on the 30th, only the 3rd for the
observatory.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Young Magnolia Warbler was banded for the 2nd year in a row - are they nesting in Teslin area??</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Young Yellow-bellied Sapsucker was the star capture of our highly sophisticated canopy net</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Some bigger birds have been on the move too. The 27th was
a particularly good day as in the morning in rain and fog over 600 <strong>Greater
White-fronted Geese</strong> were tallied and then in the afternoon when the weather
cleared there was a short pulse of about 70 raptors (49 <strong>Red-tailed Hawks</strong>)
heading south. The lake has hosted up to two juvenile <strong>Sabine's Gulls</strong> for a few
days now and up to four different <strong>Parasitic Jaegers</strong> including one sub-adult, an
age-class and plumage not often seen inland. Visible day-time passerine
migration has also picked up a little. On both the 30th and the 31st over 500
<strong>Yellow-rumped Warblers</strong> (including unidentified candidates) were counted flying
by. Ten fly-by <strong>Townsend's Solitaires</strong> on the 31st was a high count for that
species.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">TLBO, a meeting place for arctic migrants - Sabine's Gull (L) and Thayer's Gull (R)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Young Sabine's Gull has been keeping us company for a few days now</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sub-adult Parasitic Jaeger</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A raft of at least 45 Red-breasted Mergansers - the biggest ever seen at the observatory!</td></tr>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;">There was some real exciting drama too on the morning of the 30th when a sub-adult <strong>Peregrine Falcon</strong> spotted our local gull flock and made a stoop for breakfast. It managed to catch a young <strong>Mew Gull</strong> but landed in water with it and for some reason released it. It was quite a show - short but action packed!</span></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Peregrine darting after gulls on the shoreline</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The young Mew Gull nicked by the Peregrine. Notice the wound in the thigh area.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Acting station manager Ted Murphy-Kelly enjoying after hours wiener roasting</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bander-in-Charge bands and volunteers Julie Bauer (center) and Sarah Coulthard (R) assist<br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Banding totals as of Aug 31 (the # banded since the last
update in brackets):</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Solitary Sandpiper - 2</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Spotted Sandpiper - 1</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Belted Kingfisher - 2</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 1 (1)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Northern Flicker - 2</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Western Wood-Pewee - 4 (4)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Yellow-bellied Flycatcher - 11 (1)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Alder Flycatcher - 727 (354)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Least Flycatcher - 6</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Hammond's Flycatcher - 9</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Dusky Flycatcher - 2 (1)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Northern Shrike - 1</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Warbling Vireo - 46</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Black-capped Chickadee - 23 (7)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Boreal Chickadee - 6</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Red-breasted Nuthatch -6 (2)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 18 (7)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Gray-cheeked Thrush - 1</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Swainson's Thrush - 54 (14)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Hermit Thrush - 1</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">American Robin - 4</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Varied Thrush - 1 (1)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Cedar Waxwing - 8 (3)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Tennessee Warbler - 1</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Orange-crowned Warbler - 71 (47)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Yellow Warbler - 286 (132)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Yellow-rumped Warbler - 105 (42)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Townsend's Warbler - 7 (1)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Blackpoll Warbler - 78 (19)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">American Redstart - 31 (4)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Northern Waterthrush - 43 (4)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">MacGillivray's Warbler - 1</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Common Yellowthroat - 43 (18)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Wilson's Warbler - 88 (16)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">American Tree Sparrow - 1</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Chipping Sparrow - 18 (1)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Savannah Sparrow - 11 (4)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Fox Sparrow - 5 (4)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Lincoln's Sparrow - 8 (2)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">White-crowned Sparrow - 12 (4)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Dark-eyed Junco - 63 (39)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Purple Finch - 1</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">White-winged Crossbill - 3</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Pine Siskin - 7 (2)</span></div>
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= 1821 (735) birds, 46 species</div>
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