greeting birders to the south we have recently been seeing large numbers of common redpolls in the area our banding station has banded 91 which is unheard of at this time of the year. We have currently banded over 2000 pine siskins which must be showing up in southern Ontario by now. In addition northern shrikes are easy to find driving in suitable habitat. We have been lucky to band 11 boreal chickadees which we do not get every year. Birders may find it interesting that our owl banding efforts have resulted in 12 boreal owls being banded and the northern sawwhet wave has passed threw and should be nestled on the shores of lake Ontario and Erie by now
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