Banding Owls

My friend Anna and I had the chance to band owls. For the Wildlife Society, they introduced this event to everyone and we all had the chance to participate. On saturday the 14th we traveled to a forest around Bloomington and met with some people who were leading the banding. First we helped take down the nets and they set up the speakers for the owls to come. What they did is they had a box with a recorder in it and on the recorder was a recording of an owl. This was so that other owls would be attracted to the sound and they would fly around the area and eventually fly in the net. After taking down the nets, we waited an hour and then checked the nets to see if any owls had flown into them. After checking it we waited another 45 minutes. Checked them again, and waited another 45 minutes. After checking the nets that last time we had decided to wait for one more time to see if we caught one. Hopeful to catch an hour we were waiting in the cold just to check the nets one last time. After waiting and checking the last time we were not successful. Even though we had not caught an owl I learned more about how to and more about that specific type of owl.