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Breeding Season 2006
Hannah Suthers
The breeding season at Featherbed Lane was
good, with drought breaking late May rains and summer rains allowing
ground cover to recover. Nearly 100 more birds were banded this season
than last year. Active nests, feeding activity, and young were seen in
31 species; 28 more species were present throughout, most banded in the
breeding condition; 10 elusive species were seen or heard occasionally,
totaling 69 species. Feral cats were not seen, but three different
foxes were present throughout, impacting the success of Ovenbird and
other ground nesters.
| Highlights of singing males and young are |
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| Turkey Vulture | 2 pairs |
| Red-tailed Hawk | 2 pairs |
| Cooper's Hawk | passover 2 July |
| Wild Turkey | mixed ages flock |
| Yellow-billed Cuckoo | 7 |
| Black-billed Cuckoo | 2 |
| Great-horned Owl | 2 pairs |
| Screech Owl | 2 pairs |
| Ruby-throated Hummingbird | 4 territories |
| Banding Reports |
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| Downy Woodpecker | 9, young banded 18 June, 2 July |
| Hairy Woodpecker | 3, young banded 2 July |
| Pileated Woodpecker | 1 |
| Eastern Wood Pewee | 6, young banded 31 Aug Eastern Phoebe 3 nests, young banded 30 July |
| Great-crested Flycatcher | 8 |
| Barn Swallows | 4 pairs, 20 young (two broods) |
| Tree Swallow | pair, 4 young |
| Hybrid Chickadee | young banded 16 July |
| Carolina Chickadee | 10, young banded 2 July, 9 July |
| Black-capped Chickadee | 7 |
| Tufted Titmouse | 29, young banded 29 June - Aug |
| Blue-gray Gnatcatcher | 2 |
| American Robin | 44, (3 broods) |
| Eastern Bluebird | 1 |
| Wood Thrush | 33, young banded 16 July - Aug Bicknell's Thrush banded 4 June (migrant) |
| Veery | 15, young banded 16 July |
| Gray Catbird | 55, broods 18 June - 31 Aug |
| Cedar Waxwing | 2 |
| White-eyed Vireo | 1 |
| Yellow-throated Vireo | 5 |
| Red-eyed Vireo | 11, banded 11 June, 2 July |
| Black-and-White Warbler | banded 31 Aug |
| Blue-winged Warbler | 6, banded 11 June |
| Yellow Warbler | 3, young banded 30 July |
| Ovenbird | 29, young banded 29 June - Aug |
| Common Yellowthroat | 27, young banded 2 July - Aug |
| American Redstart | banded 31 Aug |
| Baltimore Oriole | 13 |
| Scarlet Tanager | 11, young 13 Aug |
| Rose-breasted Grosbeak | 16, young banded 9 July |
| Indigo Bunting | 3 |
| Eastern Towhee | 31 |
| Chipping Sparrow | 5 |
| Field Sparrow | 5 |
| Early migrants include |
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| Canada Warbler | banded 13 Aug |
| Black-throated Green Warbler | banded 13 Aug Chestnut-sided Warbler banded 13 Aug |
| Black-throated Blue Warbler | banded 31 Aug Magnolia Warbler banded 31 Aug |
| Northern Parula | banded 31 Aug |
| Traill's (Alder) Flycatcher | banded 20 Aug |
| Yellow-bellied flycatcher | banded 13 Aug |
Hannah Suthers and the Featherbed Lane Banding Station Crew
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