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Fall 2000
Hannah Suthers
Weekly banding and daily Control censusing for the
NEXRAD Weather Radar Migration Studies indicated flights on September
15, October 15, 22nd, and November 5 through the Featherbed Lane Bird
Banding Station in the Hopewell Sourlands and trickle-through migration
inbetween. Highlights of 51 species of birds banded, including 19
species of warblers and 11 species of sparrows were:
| Hybrid Chickadee | 22-Oct |
| Brown Creeper and Winter Wren | 5-Nov |
| Gray-cheeked Thrush | 17-Sep |
| Worm-eating Warbler | 24-Sep |
| Nashville Warbler | 17 Sep, 8 Oct |
| Bay-breasted Warbler | 10-Sep |
| Mourning Warbler | 8-Oct |
| American Tree Sparrows | 2 on 12 Nov |
| Lincon's Sparrow | 1 Oct, 3 on 15 Oct |
| Sightings included: | |
| Black Vulture | 19-Nov |
| Red-shouldered Hawk | 13-Nov |
| pair American Kestrels | 29-Sep |
| Ruffed Grouse | 6 & 14 Oct |
| Wild Turkey | 5 on 11 Nov |
| American Woodcock | 29-Sep |
| Great-horned Owl | 2 on 21 & 22 Sep, 1 & 15 Oct, 12 Nov |
| Pileated Woodpecker | 20-Sep |
| Yellow-bellied Sapsucker | 7-Nov |
| Winter Wren | 26 Oct, 1 Nov |
| Northern Parula | 25-Sep |
| Myrtle Warbler (Yellow-rumped) | first 25 Sep |
| Blackburnian Warbler | 22-Sep |
| Yellow Palm Warbler | 10 Oct, 31 Oct |
| Rusty Blackbird | 500 on 7 Oct |
| Purple Finch | 2 Nov, 6 on 6 Nov |
| White-crowned Sparrow | adult 9 Oct, juvenile, 19 Oct |
| Lincoln's Sparrow | 3 Oct, 10 Oct, 14 Oct, 17 Oct |
Hannah Suthers and the Featherbed Lane Banding Station Crew
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