[TN-Bird] 17 Northern Saw-whet Owls banded !
- From: Wallace Coffey <jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: 1-A TN-Birds <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 19:04:20 -0400
TN-Birders:
Jim Giocomo, Knoxville, TN and Dan Kim, Maryville, have had amazing success
this fall banding Northern Saw-whet Owls in Tennessee.
Working at their banding station south of Maryville, TN, a few miles east of
Kyker Bottoms in Blount County, they have captured and banded 17 Northern
Saw-whets ! Is that amazing or is that amazing ?
The station opened Nov 14 when Dan Kim and Jenny Fiedler caught and banded a
female Northern Saw-whet Owl. Jim and Dan have been catching mainly AHY
(after the hatching year) females, with one bird measuring out as unknown
and a single male has been captured. Birds have little fat and moderate
body condition (nothing super sharp, but no bulging keels either).
On Nov. 25 they caught 5 birds including 3 hatching year birds.
It was a slow Thanksgiving holiday, but the owls are still trickling
through. They
caught their first male last Wednesday, and had one local recapture eight
days after her initial capture as well as one new bird last night.
If trapping does not pick up they will probably close down next week.
I operated a station briefly at South Holston Lake in Sullivan County in
early November until logistic problems and evidently the wrong type of
habitat closed the station down. No owls were captured. Next fall or
spring I will give it another go. With the exception of one Northern
Saw-whet Owl taken by Rick Knight and myself in 1995, I have not hit the
learning curve on Northern Saw-whet Owls but Jim Giocomo has provided good
tips and we'll try again.
The last I heard David Vogt was planning to operate a few nets near
Chattanooga but I have no further informtion on his success.
Our hats off to Jim Giocomo and Dan Kim, amazing pathfinding pioneers for
fall migration efforts and success with this little-known owl in Tennessee.
Let's go birding....
Wallace Coffey
Bristol, TN
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