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The Spirit of Autumn

October 16, 2014 By Communications Team

 

Black-throated Green warbler.  Photo by Dustin Welch.
Black-throated Green Warbler and birch catkins. Photo by Dustin Welch.

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It is a beautiful crisp October day, with the changing leaves standing out in stark contrast against the somber, gray sky.  As I stand in the driveway of the picturesque office of Willistown Conservation Trust, I am enchanted by the feathered feeding frenzy!  The trees are alive with rustling leaves that magically morph into bustling birds, flitting here and there to the rhythm of the Autumn spirit.  Two Blackpoll Warblers wizz by my head in an animated chase, enlivened by the crisp air in this moment and forgetting about the many more miles they have to go before their winter sojourn in the tropics.

Blackpoll warbler.  Photo by Blake Goll.
Blackpoll Warbler banded at Rushton this October. Photo by Blake Goll.

Many more warblers dance around in the upper reaches of the maple and hickory trees.  The commotion of these strangers in the neighborhood stirs up the curious residents- the chickadees and titmice- who join the feeding flock. Perhaps the migrant flock found the resident chickadees and titmice first since these are the ones to trust when it comes to knowing where the best food sources are and where the predators are.  Migrant flocks of birds are quite cunning like that.  They must be. Their lives depend on it.
Tap. Tap. Tap tap-tap tap. Tap.  My ears lead my eager eyes to a medium-sized woodpecker skirting its way up a dead tree trunk.  The October shadows obscure the bird’s coloring from my view.  Could it be a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker!?  There have been many reports of these handsome migrants in the area!
Young male American Goldfinch at Rushton this October.  Photo by Blake Goll.
Young male American Goldfinch at Rushton this October. Photo by Blake Goll.

Now my eyes are drawn to the Rudbeckia triloba (or Brown-eyed Susan) in the front bed of the office.  Several flowers are nodding toward the earth and others bouncing up and down wildly under the weight of wild canaries!  These are the resident goldfinches with their young of the year, voraciously harvesting the seeds of this wonderful native plant.  I look up to my right where I see more movement in the willowy River birch from which a feeder hangs.  More goldfinches are pecking at the birch catkins to extract nutritious seeds even as the bird feeder sways enticingly beneath them, filled with hulled sunflower seeds.  You just can’t beat the opulent menu that nature offers for birds this time of year!
Rudbeckia triloba at WCT headquarters
Rudbeckia triloba at WCT headquarters

Looking out across the Trust’s native wildflower meadow, I see more old seed heads from the retired perennials bobbing up and down and small figures swooping around the golden grasses and diving in amongst the gray and amber stalks.  I don’t grab my binoculars because I want to experience the whole of this pulse, rather than pick out the individual birds in this moment.  I know there are mixed warblers, sparrows and more goldfinches out there in the meadow, and I am content to be wrapped up in the spirit of Autumn with child-like glee.
Common Yellowthroat. Photo by Mike Rosengarten
Common Yellowthroat. Photo by Mike Rosengarten.

And I think to myself, what a wonderful landscape for these deserving creatures to relish.  Our meadow will be mowed in early spring to keep the woody growth and invasive plants at bay, but for now its unmowed glory is a paradise providing shelter, seeds, insects and berries for countless small animals and birds.  The insects themselves can find solace here; who knows how many praying mantis egg cases, underground bee burrows and silken cocoons are hidden safely amongst the leaf litter, ready to emerge in the new year and pass on their small but significant life force.
Hickory Tussock Moth Caterpillar on Witch Hazel.  Photo by Mike Rosengarten
Hickory Tussock Moth caterpillar on Witch Hazel. Photo by Mike Rosengarten

As I’m again enjoying the goldfinches feasting in the birch, a lovely Hermit Thrush silently enters the scene like an apparition and perches gracefully on a branch, gently and diagnostically bobbing its fox-red tail up and down to that same infectious pulse that seems to be rippling through this large flock of migrants – and now my heart.
This is the excitement that can come of a typical cloudy October day, when one simply tunes into the cycles of nature.  Someone once told me,”never despise the day of ordinary things.”  I say, when you invite birds and nature into your daily routine, the ordinary day becomes rare.
Hermit Thrush.  Photo by Mike Rosengarten
Hermit Thrush. Photo by Mike Rosengarten.

All of us banders at the Rushton banding station know this to be true.  This fall season has been an exciting one with great species diversity (20 species one day!) and satisfactory numbers of migrants.  The most we had in one day were 83 birds back in September when the Gray Catbirds were still going strong.
Now the catbird flow has tapered off, and the sparrows have entered the stage in full force including Lincoln’s, Swamp, Song, White-throated and even a Savannah!  Field sparrows passed through earlier this fall.
The stream of warblers has also been slowing down, although last week we did catch a Magnolia Warbler, Black-and-white Warbler , Blackpoll Warbler and the usual Common Yellowthroats.  This week’s warblers included Black-throated Blue, Magnolia, American Redstart and first of the season Yellow-rumped (Myrtle).
Wood thrushes have all passed through and have been replaced by Swainson’s Thrush, a few Gray-cheeked Thrush and tons of American Robins.  We are expecting Hermit Thrushes, oodles of kinglets and loads more White-throated Sparrows to hop into our nets soon, followed by juncos and a Fox Sparrow or two to round out the season.
Noteworthy flyovers have included two regal Bald Eagles and a very mysterious Common Raven flying Southwest as it issued its guttural croaking call.  Blue- headed Vireos serenaded us with their slow, playful song from the tops of the trees today.  In the predawn, Bobolinks were heard over the farm on September 30th and an American Woodcock was heard one morning in mid-October.  The Great Horned Owl sang to us many mornings during net setup.
People visitors, eager to see and learn about these migrating wonders, have been flocking to the banding station as usual.   Visitors included the Birding Club of Delaware County, representatives from the Academy of Natural Sciences, businesses, Junior Birders, elementary school students and Universities like Villanova and UPenn.  We even have a UPenn student analyzing stopover ecology data this season.  This pertains to the timing and rate of weight gain in migrants during their stay at Rushton before continuing their migratory journeys.  This type of data is revealed by same-season recaptures of birds.
Enjoy the following photo journal of the season highlights so far.  Pretend you are birding!  Hope to see you out there at Rushton (Tuesday and Thursday mornings through the end of October).
There’s a lot going on in the woods,
Blake
Eastern Screech Owl caught during the first week of migration banding in August.
Resident Eastern Screech Owl caught during the first week of migration banding in August.

Eastern Screech Owl caught during the first week of migration banding in August
Resident Eastern Screech Owl caught during the first week of migration banding in August.

Hatching year Chestnut-sided Warbler at Rushton at the end of August.
Hatching year Chestnut-sided Warbler at Rushton at the end of August.

Hatching year male Indigo Bunting at Rushton end of August.  You can see some feathers coming in on his wing.
Hatching year male Indigo Bunting at Rushton end of August. You can see some feathers growing in on his wing (if you click on the picture to enlarge it).

Yellow-bellied Flycatcher in August at Rushton
Worm-eating Warbler in August at Rushton.

Yellow-bellied flycatcher in August at Rushton
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher in August at Rushton.

Black-throated Blue Warbler (a hatch year male) in September Photo by Jessica Shahan
Black-throated Blue Warbler (a hatch year male) at Rushton in September. Photo by Jessica Shahan.

Cedar Waxwing (Hatch year female).  Photo by Jessica Shahan
Cedar Waxwing (hatch year female) at Rushton in September. Photo by Jessica Shahan

Red-eyed Vireo with bulging fat (the orange color).  Birds must carry fat in order to migrate.  A fat bird is a more successful bird!
Red-eyed Vireo with bulging fat (the orange color). Birds must carry fat in order to migrate, and it’s one important piece of data we collect. A fat bird is a more successful bird!

Canada Warbler in September at Rushton
Canada Warbler in September at Rushton.

Nashville Warbler at Rushton in September
Nashville Warbler at Rushton in September.

Ovenbird at Rushton in September.  Photo by Jessica Shahan
Ovenbird at Rushton in September. Photo by Jessica Shahan

Young male Connecticut Warbler at Rushton in September. Photo by Gary Stolz
Young male Connecticut Warbler at Rushton in September. Photo by Gary Stolz

Young female Black-throated Green Warbler at Rushton in September for the Junior Birding Open House
Young female Black-throated Green Warbler at Rushton in September for the Junior Birding Open House.

Eager Junior Birders and families crowded around the banding table at Rushton in September during the Open House
Eager Junior Birders and families crowded around the banding table at Rushton in September during the Open House.

Gray Catbird at Rushton in September.  Notice the noticeably browner feathers on the wings compared the the grayer ones next door?  The brown feathers are juvenal and the gray ones are adult, so we know this bird was hatched this year.
Gray Catbird at Rushton in September. Notice the noticeably browner feathers on the front of the wings compared to the grayer ones further back? The brown feathers are juvenal and the gray ones are adult, so we know this bird was hatched this year.  This contrast in ages of feathers is what we call a molt limit.  This is one way to age birds in the hand (and in the field).

 
Male American Redstart at Rushton in September
Male American Redstart at Rushton in September.

Adult female Eastern Towhee at Rushton this October
Adult female Eastern Towhee at Rushton this October.

Lincoln's Sparrow at Rushton in September
Lincoln’s Sparrow at Rushton in September.

Hatching year female Purple Finch at Rushton in September.  A molty mess!
Hatching year Purple Finch at Rushton in September. A molty mess!

Male Northern Cardinal at Rushton in October.  Notice his flight feathers in molt!
Male Northern Cardinal at Rushton in October. Notice his flight feathers in molt!

Eastern Phoebe at Rushton in October.  Photo by Blake Goll
Eastern Phoebe at Rushton in October. Photo by Blake Goll

Measuring wing of Red-eyed Vireo in October at Rushton
Measuring wing of Red-eyed Vireo in October at Rushton.

Boy releasing Carolina Chickadee in who doesn't quite realize she's free yet!
Boy releasing Carolina Chickadee who doesn’t quite realize she’s free yet!

Comparing the wings of two Red-bellied Woodpeckers in October at Rushton.  The one on the left is an "After Second Year" bird with much darker primary coverts than the one of the right (a hatching year bird).
Comparing the wings of two Red-bellied Woodpeckers in October at Rushton. The one on the left is an “After Second Year” bird with much darker primary coverts than the one of the right (a hatching year bird).

Bill deformity in Gray Catbird at Rushton in October
Bill deformity in Gray Catbird at Rushton in October.  Photo by Blake Goll

Young student releasing a Black-throated Blue Warbler at Rushton in October
Young student releasing a Black-throated Blue Warbler at Rushton in October.

Male Sharp-shinned Hawk at Rushton in October
Male Sharp-shinned Hawk at Rushton in October.

Hatching year female Northern Flicker at Rushton in October
Hatching year female Northern Flicker at Rushton in October.

Yellow Palm Warbler at Rushton in October
Yellow Palm Warbler at Rushton in October.  Excuse us for not preening that one nape feather back into place!

Male Black-and white Warbler at Rushton in October
Male Black-and white Warbler at Rushton in October.  Photo by Blake Goll

Gentleman with Gray Catbird before release at Rushton.
Gentleman with Gray Catbird before release at Rushton.

House Finch (male) at Rushton in October
House Finch (male) at Rushton in October.  Photo by Blake Goll

Carolina Wren at Rushton in October
Carolina Wren at Rushton in October.  Photo by Blake Goll

Savannah Sparrow at Rushton in October.  Photo by Blake Goll
Savannah Sparrow at Rushton in October. Photo by Blake Goll

Young female Wilson's Warbler at Rushton in October.  Photo by Blake Goll
Young female Wilson’s Warbler at Rushton in October. Photo by Blake Goll

 
 

Filed Under: Bird Banding Tagged With: Bird banding, fall migration, Goldfinch, habitat, native wildflower meadow, stopover ecology

Bird Babies, MAPS, Monarchs and More!

August 17, 2011 By Communications Team

Feisty Gray Catbird biting finger
A feisty Gray Catbird bites a bander's finger before being released. (Photo by Adrian Binns)

I hope this finds you enjoying the height of your summer and the company of those nosy, gregarious catbirds that have multiplied in your yard!  Sadly, they won’t be here for too much longer. Gray Catbirds as well as many of our other favorite summer birds like Wood Thrush, Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Veery, Scarlet Tanager, Eastern Phoebe, and Common Yellowthroat are finished nesting and are now gearing up for their southern voyage.  This usually involves molting into their “fall clothes” (depending on the species) and then fattening up for migration.  They fill their furcular hollow (the wishbone area) with fat in much the same way as you fill your tank with gas before a long trip!

Young male Baltimore Oriole
This young male Baltimore Oriole nested here this summer. They too will be leaving us soon for their home in South America.

But enough with migration talk for now…We still have another couple of weeks of summer, according to a bird’s calendar!  In fact, there are some birds that are taking their time and still nesting or just finishing up.  Goldfinches are among the last North American birds to nest, usually waiting until July or even early August; this is when milkweed, thistle, and other plants produce their fibrous seeds which goldfinches use as nesting material and the main food source for their young.  They are strict vegetarians and raise their kids that way too, unlike most other seed-eating avian parents.  This is bad news for lazy, young Brown-headed Cowbird moms who think they can get away with shirking their parental duties by dropping off their eggs with goldfinch foster families.  Once hatched, cowbird babies in goldfinch nests never survive because the all-seed diet isn’t enough for them.

Indigo bunting nest attached to sunflower
This surprisingly late nest was found a little over a week ago in a farm field in the area. Can you guess what bird species this precious nest belongs to? It is not a goldfinch nest. It is an open cup of soft leaves, coarse grasses, stems, strips of bark and paper, all held in place and attached to the sunflower with spider web and lined with soft grass and deer hair. It belongs to an Indigo Bunting!

I also want to fill you in on all of the exciting bird happenings of this past month at Rushton, namely the MAPS babies.  MAPS, which stands for Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship, is the most important, data intensive project that a banding station can do.  The program was started in 1989 by the Institute for Bird Populations in Point Reyes, CA, and there are now over 500 certified, constant-effort MAPS stations all over North America, including Rushton Woods Preserve as of this summer!

As an official MAPS station, we banded once every 10 days during the breeding season, following strict IBP protocol that ensures that our data can be easily compared to continent-wide data.  This involved clearing and setting up 10 new strategic net lanes throughout the preserve, with each net a certain distance apart from the others within an 8 hectare total area.  Then we completed a rigorous Habitat Survey Analysis of all the habitat types, plant species, and botanical structural composition of our study area.  Banding in the oppressive heat of the summer while trying to ward off ticks and Lyme disease was another challenge, but we enjoyed every minute of it knowing it’s all for the birds!  OK, so maybe someone didn’t exactly enjoy the Lyme disease…

The banding process
Doris Mcgovern (Master Bander) and Lisa Kiziuk (who holds a sub-permit under Doris) efficiently processing birds. Notice all of the essential MAPS banding tools and materials, including the coffee mug on the right.

Our resulting data will contribute to critical information on the ecology, conservation, and management of North American landbird populations, and the factors responsible for changes in their populations.  Check out the IBP website to learn more about MAPS and the other important projects underway as well as their training programs.  There, you will also find interesting bird banding resources and publications, including the MAPS annual report.

I’d say Rushton’s first MAPS season was very successful!  We have records on 242 birds total, including 138 new birds and 98 recaptures.  Many of those recaptures were birds we had caught in one of the previous springs (2010 or 2011) in our migration nets.  Other recaptures were birds that had bad luck and got stuck in our ‘webs’ more than once this summer.  We recorded a total of 42 species on the Breeding Bird Survey (or BBS, another part of the MAPS protocol); each species was designated as a Confirmed Breeder, Probable Breeder or merely as Observed based on the quality of our observations over the 8 banding sessions.

We are in the process of entering and making sense of our data and will hopefully be able to give you a more comprehensive summary soon!  For example, if we analyze the data and find that most of the breeding catbirds were Second Year (SY) birds rather than older adults, this could indicate that the habitat isn’t so great since we know older males get the better territories.  In another scenario, if we have all older birds and no returning SY individuals of a neotropical migrant, this could indicate high mortality on the wintering grounds.  However, we always need a big picture before we can make such conclusions, which is what continent-wide MAPS data from constant-effort MAPS stations gives us.

We do know that we banded oodles of adorable babies of 16 different species, so 16 of those 42 species on the BBS were without a doubt breeding successfully in Rushton!   See if you can identify the species of each of our babies pictured below.  Then scroll down for the answers.

Juvenile woodthrush

MAPS-Baby veery

Common yellowthroat male Hatch Year

Ovenbird

Tufted Titmouse

MAPS Banding Hatch Year Cardinal

Baby Downy woodpecker

Blue jay

Baby indigo bunting

Some of the babies are more “babyish” looking than the others, depending on how far along they are in their first molt.  You can tell baby birds apart from adults by looking for wispy under-tail coverts and other wispy feathers on the body.  Juvenile birds also usually have bare “wing pits” and purple featherless bellies that can be mistaken as brood patches.  (A brood patch is a bare belly on adult female birds who pluck their tummy feathers out in order to be better able to monitor and regulate the temperature of their eggs).  Another telltale sign of a baby bird is the presence of “bird lips,” which are just yellow fleshy parts on the corners of the bird’s bill that disappear as the bird matures.  There are species-specific clues to juvenile bird ID too: thrushes are usually speckled, towhees’ eyes are black and turn red with age, cardinals’ bills start out light and turn red with age, etc.

The species whose baby birds we banded included (in the order pictured above) Wood Thrush, Veery, Common Yellowthroat, Ovenbird, Tufted Titmouse, Northern Cardinal, Downy Woodpecker, Blue Jay, Brown Thrasher, and Indigo Bunting.  Did you get them all right?  In addition, we banded babies of Eastern Towhee, Eastern Wood Peewee, American Robin, White Breasted Nuthatch, Carolina Wren, and last and most abundant, Gray Catbird.  We are proud of our list of babies!  Of course, we would be more satisfied if we had Kentucky Warbler (which has been recorded as using Rushton in the past) and/or Louisiana Waterthrush.  What could this indicate about our habitat?

Neither of these prized species were seen or heard this summer, although we did band a Louisiana Waterthrush in May during migration.  Since we did not catch or hear the waterthrush during MAPS banding, we cannot confirm that they breed here.  However, we did hear him singing vigorously this spring, and it is thought that unlike many other warblers, he does not usually sing until he arrives on his breeding grounds.  Waterthrush are also known to be early breeders.  Named the “feathered trout” of forest streams, the Louisiana Waterthrush is a bio-indicator of water quality because it feeds primarily on aquatic macroinvertebrates, like mayfly larva, that are intolerant to acid pH and pollution.  Therefore, the presence of Louisiana Waterthrush in Rushton shows the importance of the protections that the preserve affords to the Indian Run tributary of Ridley.  Read more about this special bird in the American Birding Association’s article.  Also be sure to check out the accompanying WebExtra with comments by PA ornithologists.

Louisiana Waterthrush
The Louisiana Waterthrush we caught in May. Pardon his disheveled appearance. Always straighten a bird's feathers before taking his picture! We owe it to them.

Here’s an interesting birding tip from Cornell Lab of Ornithology:  To differentiate between Louisiana and Northern Waterthrush, remember that the pitch of the Louisiana’s song usually descends just as the hilly stream habitat it prefers, while the beginning notes of the Northern’s song stay on the same pitch just like the flat bogs and waters it prefers.

This month, we will be focusing on a different kind of migrant of equal importance, the Monarch butterfly. I’m pleased to announce that in addition to becoming an official MAPS station, Rushton Woods Preserve became an official Monarch Waystation this month!  We are on the University of Kansas’ national registry of hundreds of Monarch Waystations that provide milkweeds, nectar plants, and shelter for monarchs throughout their delicate annual cycle of reproduction and migration.  This nationwide conservation effort is extremely important because Monarch butterflies are declining due to habitat loss from development, frequent mowing, and widespread use of herbicides in croplands, pastures, and roadsides.  Invasive milkweed pests and monarch parasitoids are also threats to the population.  It is our duty to do everything we can to ensure that this miraculous migration continues to inspire people of all ages for generations to come.

Monarch on wildflowers
Male Monarch on Joe Pye Weed in a demonstration native wildflower meadow at the Willistown Conservation Trust's headquarters. Visit our model wildflower gardens anytime!

I encourage you to learn more about and/or participate in some of the citizen science projects for monarch conservation including Monarch Watch through the University of Kansas (migration tagging and waystation certification) and the Monarch Larva Monitoring Project (MLMP) through the University of Minnesota.  These projects are fun for children and adults and crucial to monarch research and conservation.  You are also more than welcome to come out to Rushton to visit our spectacular Monarch Waystation; the fields are full of Common Milkweed, Monarch adults and larvae, and other flowers and butterflies.  Also, please let me know if you or a friend would like to collect data for Rushton for MLMP.  Rushton is a certified MLMP site, but we haven’t had the time to monitor!  MLMP data is important to understanding how and why monarch populations vary in time and space.

The PA Young Birders meeting this month is Monarch Madness!  We will meet at Rushton Farm from 6-7:30 PM on Wednesday August 24.  Join us as we explore the fascinating lives of Monarch butterflies and contribute to their conservation.  We will be surveying our milkweed patch for Monarch larvae and other interesting creatures that call milkweed home.  Afterwards, we will send our citizen science data to the MLMP.  There should also be a few migrant Monarch adults around for us to tag for Monarch Watch, although the peak migration is projected to occur around the second week of September for our latitude.  Catching Monarchs for tagging is no easy task because they are actually faster than you’d expect, so make sure your children have on their running shoes!  Tagging records have been able to show that the overall migration advances only 25-30 miles a day, but some individuals, like one late season monarch flying from Virginia to Texas, can average 61 miles per day!

For a recap and pictures of our last fun PA Young Birders meeting, “Birds and Beaks”, go to Notes from the Wildside, Adrian Binns’ blog!

Birds and Beaks Class
A PA Young Birder is happy with his "crop" full of bird food!

These days, I’m hearing a change in the night symphony… a subtle crescendo of crickets and a lessening of the cicada choir…  Several leaves of the Black Gum tree in my woods have turned a deep red and spicebush berries are ripening…  There is a certain crispness to the air here and there, and the birds seem a bit more anxious….  Time to shake the dust off those ‘confusing fall warbler’ guides and wipe your ‘bin’ lenses clear! For our dear old friend, Autumn, is near…

And there’s a lot going on the woods,

~Blake

Kirkwood

Filed Under: Bird Banding, Bird Events Tagged With: Baltimore Oriole, Bird banding, Goldfinch, Gray Catbird, Louisiana Waterthrush, MAPS, MLMP, Monarch, Monarch Watch, PA Young Birder

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