[mou] strange banding day

[dan&erika]

Hi All--

I have been traveling most of October and have been away for the last four
days.  I was surprised to band 6 Black-capped Chickadees today.  Since I
have an almost constant banding effort underway at home, I wonder where
these birds came from.  Jansen reports chickadee migrations along the
Superior shore, but there is no banding data to support chickadee
migrations.

I also caught 5 White-breasted Nuthatches.  Two of these were already banded
(8 October 2006 and 26 March 2007).  I would have assumed that I had already
banded my local nuthatches.

Best bird was this very partically albino Downy Woodpecker:
http://www.northern.edu/tallmand/dat/misc/dowoalbino.jpg

dan

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Dan or Erika Tallman
Northfield, Minnesota
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