Well, this is not what it is supposed to be! The weather although has been more than Stellar for people who like warm temps year round, Sucks for those of us that Band Raptors!
With over 32 hours of effort in the Owl Banding, only 19 Owls have been Banded at the Innisfree site. This is our second slowest start since we started in 2006. At the Scanlon site, Nigel hasn't done much better with about 22 Owls. He has put in about double the effort(it's his Job) than me, so it is even worse !
On the Hawk side of things, Nigel continues to get 1 every couple days, but we are well below where we expected to be by this time! I have banded 6 Hawks sofar, which is a 70% decrease from last year. We just aren't seeing many Birds either.
This is all weather related and we really want the "warm nice "weather to Piss Off !
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