[TN-Bird] successful hummer banding trip

From: Wallace Coffey <jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: 1-A TN-Birds <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 18:49:19 -0400
TN-Birders:

Chris Sloan left Bristol enroute to Danville, Kentucky
this evening (11/23) following  a very successful
hummingbird banding day that nearly tied his all-time
record for hummers banded in a single day.  He 
banded four Rufous hummers.

Starting early at Greeneville, in Green County,  he
captured and banded an after-the-hatching-year
(adult) female Rufous Hummingbird.

Then to Johnson City and a residence just inside
the Carter Co. line where a second adult, female
Rufous was banded..  

Near Elizabethton in Carter Co. a bird first thought
to be something other than a Selasphorus genus
was caught.  It escaped from Sloan's hands while
a band was being prepared.  A half hour later the
bird was recaptured and it turned out
to be an adult female Rufous.

Also in Carter Co. near Hummingbird Hill on the
slopes of Roan Mountain,  an adult male Rufous
has been present.   The bird was not seen while
Sloan was there today and that bird escapes
capture.  The feeder is at a summer cabin and
no one is there on a daily basis.  The feeder was
frozen, snow was on the roads, and in the woods,
and it was an effort to get the trap in place for the
attempt.

In Washington County, VA, just north of Bristol,
a female Rufous was captured that is an "immature"
bird of the 2002 hatching year.

In addition to hosts, family members and neighbors
who were present for the capture and banding,  
the following people traveled and assisted with the
banding operations:  Chris Sloan,  Rick Knight,
Wallace Coffey, Larry McDaniel, Rack Cross and
Don Holt.

Chris hopes to take two birds near Danville, Ky
Sunday morning.  That would be six for the weekend.
Not bad.

Let's go birding......

Wallace Coffey
Bristol, TN


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