This page has both months because we are ending the Spring banding at the beginning of June and will start Summer banding on July 15.  Hardly worth two separate pages.

July 31: Jim, Roswitha, Bev.  Again a nice morning with 12 degrees and no humidity.  Clouds started in around 7 and wind was slight from the NW.  Banded:  Downey Woodpecker, Traill's Flycatcher, House Wren 2, Blue-gray Gnatcather, American Robin 2, Gray Catbird 4, Cedar Waxwing 3, Warbling Vireo, Yellow Warbler 4, Cape-May Warbler, Bay-breasted Warbler, Rose-breasted Grosbeak 2, = 23, retrapped 5, saw 34 species.

July 30: Jim, Roswitha, Bev.  Nice morning with only 12 degrees and no humidity. Banded: Yellow-bellied Flycatcher 2, Traill's Flycatcher, Black-capped Chickadee, House Wren 2, Gray Catbird 13, Cedar Waxwing, Warbling Vireo, Red-eyed Vireo, Yellow Warbler 3, Northern Cardinal, Song Sparrow 2, Swamp Sparrow 2, American Goldfinch 2 = 32, retrapped 5, saw 27.

July 29: Jim, Roswitha, Bev. Cooler morning but vegetation very wet from last nights rain. Nets harder to open. No wind to start.  Banded: Downey Woodpecker, Yellow-shafted Flicker, Traill's Flycatcher 2, House Wren, American Robin, Gray Catbird 4, American Redstart 2, Common Yellowthroat, Song Sparrow, American Goldfinch 2, = 16, retrapped 5, saw 27 species.  I think last nights cold front took the birds but didn't bring any new ones. 

July 28:  Jim, Roswitha, Bev.  20 degrees with wind rising through the morning from Sw. High clouds.  Banded:  Traill's Flycatcher 4, Black-capped Chickadee, House Wren, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, American Robin, Gray Catbird 2, Warbling Vireo 7, Yellow Warbler 3, Song Sparrow = 21, recaptured 7, saw 27 species.

July 27: Roswitha, Rick, Sarah.Temperature 13 with 6/10 cloud and no wind.  Still a good amount of humidity. Banded:  Traill's Flycatcher, Blue Jay 2, Black-capped Chickadee 2, American Robin 3, Gray Catbird 2, Warbling Vireo 2, Yellow Warbler 10, Common Yellowthroat 2, Northern Cardinal, Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Song Sparrow 2, Swamp Sparrow 2, Baltimore Oriole = 31, retrapped 5, saw 27 species.

July 26: Jim, Kim, Bev.  Sunny day with only 13 degrees in the morning.  No humidity, no wind.  Banded:  Traill's Flycatcher 2, Least Flycatcher, Eastern Phebee, Blue Jay 3, Black-capped Chickadee 3, House Wren, Blue-gray Gnatcather, Wood Thrush, American Robin 2, Gray Catbird 2, Warbling Vireo, Yellow Warbler 4, Common Yellowthroat, Song Sparrow 2, Swamp Sparrow 2, Common Grackle = 28, recaptured 4, saw 29 species.

July 24:  Jim, Roswitha, Bev.  Full cloud with temperature of 21 and high humidity.  Wind out of W at about 15 dropping.  Banded: Traill's Flycatcher 2, Least Flycatcher, Great Creasted Flycatcher, Black-capped Chickadee, House Wren 3, American Robin 2, Gray Catbird 5, Warbling Vireo, Yellow Warbler 7 a couple of adults only having p9 still with quill so they are the next thing to being finshed the molt., Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Song Sparrow 5, Swamp Sparrow, American Goldfinch = 31, retrapped 5, saw 28 species.  

July 23: Predicted rain we aren't going out.

July 22: Roswitha, Kim, Bev. Temperature 14 with no wind. No cloud cover and humidity of 95% by closing it was 19 degrees and only 47% humidity. Banded: Hairy Woodpecker, Traill's Flycatcher 2, Black-capped Chickadee 2, House Wren 2, Swainson's Thrush, American Robin 2, Gray Catbird 5, Yellow Warbler 5, Common Yellowthroat 2, Song Sparrow 4, Swamp Sparrow, American Goldfinch = 28, retrapped 9, saw 29 species. 

July 21:  Jim, Roswitha, Bev.  Temperature only 22 degrees but humidity 88% and threatened thunder showers.  Morning cleared by 9 or so.  Breeze from Nw.  Banded:  Downey Woodpecker, Traill's Flycatcher 3, House Wren, Swainson's Thrush, American Robin 5, Gray Catbird 9, Warbling Vireo 3, Yellow Warbler 6, Song Sparrow 5, American Goldfinch = 36, recaptured 6, saw 25 species.

July 20:  Weather forecast said light rain by 8.  I'm not sure what light rain is but it sounded wet and so I decided that we were not going out.  I got a lot of gardening done and no rain every materialized.

July 19:  Jim, Kim, Roswitha. NW gusty to 15.  Morning temp 22 with humidity of 68%. Cloud cover.
Banded:  Downey Woodpecker 2, Eastern Kingbird, Black-capped Chickadee 4, House Wren, American Robin 7, Gray Catbird 4, Yellow Warbler 4, American Redstart, Song Sparrow 3, American Goldfinch 4 = 31, retrapped 6, saw 24 species.  Getting up at 4 is awful, at least as we go on it will be later.

July 17:  Jim and Roswitha.  S.W. breeze of 3km/hr. Morning temperature of 22 and 91% humidity.  By 10 temperature was 32 and humidity had dropped to 62% with wind of 4 km/hr.
Banded:  Downy Woodpecker, Traill's Flycatcher, Black-capped Chickadee 5, House Wren, Wood Thrush, American Robin 9, Gray Catbird 7, European Starling, Warblling Vireo 3, Yellow Warbler 26, Song Sparrow 3, Swamp Sparrow = 60, recaptured 5, saw 28 species.  All banded birds except for 4 were hatch year birds.

July 16:  Finally to banding.  Roswitha and I were out by 5:30 only to be met by flashes of lightening and rain.  We only opened up net one and got the feeders all going again.  I spent another couple of hours trying to get the &@#*^% lock together.  Finally on the Xth try the screws actually went into the holes and I was able to tighten it up.  Glad I don't have to crawl through holes to get the shed open.  By the way we caught nothing with just the one net. Temperature was only in the mid 20s but humidity was 84%.  Not nice!

July 15:  We were supposed to start banding today but Gerda and I had some babysitting to do for Sabrina so we put things off.  In the evening Alex came over and helped Gerda and I  put the new door into the shed.  Whoever invented those locking mechanizims probably also invented the Rubics Cube.  What a time we had trying to get those screws to match up and screw the thing together once it was on the door.  Gave up and screwed the door closed but had to crawl through a hole to get out.
 
July 14:  Kim, Roswitha, Gerda and Jim.  We went out to cut back the net lanes and get the grass mowed.  Very hard work with the temperature in the 30s and humidity over 80%.  We quit about 9:30 just because of the heat.  Managed to get 1, 2, 7, 8, 9 cleaned up.  This left 3, 4, 5 yet to be done.
 
June 18:  Banding Demonstrations for Fairview Avenue Public School Grade 6 pupils from Laurie Booker's class. Roswitha and I didn't go out until 8 and the pupils didn't come until closer to 10.  The weather was hot and humid with 26 degrees in sun and 21 in shade.  Wind SSE at 2 km/hr.  We had an interesting morning with the following birds being banded.  Hairy Woodpecker 2, Great Creasted Flycatcher 3,  Tree Swallow, Traill's Flycatcher, Yellow Warbler, Brown-headed Cowbird, Orchard Oriole = 10, retrapped 2, saw 27 species.

June 3:  Jim, Sashi, Sarah.  Again plants soaking wet from the overnight rain.  Temperature 17 with no wind.  Slow going and only picking up slightly after things had dried up a little.
Banded: Yellow-bellied Flycatcher, Traill's Flycatcher 5, American Robin 2, Gray Catbird 2, Common Yellowthroat, Common Grackle a hatch year bird = 12, retrapped 6, saw 31 species.

June 2:  Jim, Roswitha, Kim, Sashi.  Plants and ground soaking wet.  We did three net rounds and got one bird and decided to close and go looking for birds.  While closing we picked up two more birds making a total of 3.  American Robin, Warbling Vireo and Common Yellowthroat.
  The Trip Looking for Birds- Dunnville to Cayuga by back roads and back down the West side of River to Dunnville.
Noteworthy for me were the two pair of Sandhill Cranes on the West side of the Grand River, between Cayuga and Dunnville.  Both pairs had young.  Considering the other pair I saw when doing my Baillie means at least three pair in this area plus another pair that I have heard about on the East side of the river.  We had a great view of the Osprey with the male dragging a stick to the nest causing us some initial identification problems because the stick looked like legs yet it sure wasn't a Heron or a Crane. The female Osprey got off the nest when he arrived and we could see the large difference in size between the two sexes.  Bobolinks and a heard Meadowlark plus Mocking bird gave us a few birds to justify the trip.

June 1:  I cancelled banding because of the rain during the first part of the morning.