Date: 9/22/25 12:45 pm From: Tobin Brown via groups.io <tobinjbrown...> Subject: Re: [NEBirds] Chadron State Park Banding Week 4 (9/15-9/20) #CSPBanding
Wow, Palm Warbler is a good bird for Dawes!
I think I saw you at the Gering Cemetery yesterday but I didn't stay long,
had to make it back home to Lincoln. Been a weird migration, it seems. Nice
Veery today though!
- Tobin
On Mon, Sep 22, 2025 at 1:29 PM Alan Moss via groups.io <alanmoss1616=
<gmail.com...> wrote:
> Hi Nebraska Birders,
>
> I had a very up-and-down week last week, with the inclement weather
> limiting my total banding time. I actually started work on Monday to go
> ahead and get in a day of banding before the bad weather started. I then
> had to take off Tuesday, and only worked partial days on Wednesday and
> Thursday with low capture rates in subpar conditions.
>
> However, the week ended with a bang. Saturday seemed like it was going to
> be a normal, slow day. After getting 5 Orange-crowned Warblers on the first
> few net checks, it slowed down and I didn't catch anything for several
> hours. This is pretty typical, and I thought the day was pretty much over.
> Then when I went out for the 9:50 check I was stunned to find a total of 20
> birds in the nets! It seems that I had a migratory mixed-species hit the
> nets all at once. The vast majority of these were Orange-crowned Warblers,
> but I also had Black-capped Chickadees, my first Yellow-rumped Warblers of
> the season (both of the Myrtle subspecies group), and a Red-breasted
> Nuthatch. But the real prize was a Palm Warbler mixed in with all of the
> Orange-crowneds, only the second every caught at CSP. I actually caught 17%
> of my total newly banded birds for the season to that point in a single net
> run!
>
> While I hope I keep continuing to get more migrants, I do hope that they
> are more evenly distributed in the future! But as it is, this one day made
> last week the most productive of the season by far. Other notable birds
> were a Cassin's Vireo and Lincoln's Sparrow last Monday and a Swainson's
> Thrush on Friday, all of which were firsts for this season.
>
> Cassin's Vireo: 1
> Black-capped Chickadee: 4 (plus 3 repeats)
> Red-breasted Nuthatch: 1
> Northern House Wren: 1
> Brown Thrasher: 0 new (just 1 repeat)
> Swainson's Thrush: 1
> American Robin: 2
> Lincoln's Sparrow: 1
> Spotted Towhee: 3
> Orange-crowned Warbler: 24
> Wilson's Warbler: 2
> Palm Warbler: 1
> Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle): 2
>
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> Alan
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