Bruce Peterjohn and David Holmes were at my house 
this morning to band Ruby-throated Hummingbirds 
and we had a record setting day. They banded 39 
new birds and had 10 recaptures from previous 
years for a total of 49 birds. We tried for 50 but 
the last several birds we caught were recaptures 
from earlier in the day so we gave it up.

Two of the recaptures were birds banded here in 
2007 as adult birds, so they are in at least their 
5th year of life.

One hatch year male that we banded this morning 
did not seem to learn his lesson about going into 
the trap - we recaptured him 10 times.

In addition, we passed the 700 mark for number of 
hummingbirds banded at my house since we started 
banding in 2007.

My house is outside of Havre de Grace, MD next to 
Susquehanna State Park.

Les

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Les Eastman
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Havre de Grace, MD

The eagle looked down on the river below
And he wrapped his wings round him and he fell 
like a stone
And the big salmon fought but the talons held true
And he shuddered as the world turned from silver 
to blue
                               Steve Earle