Currently, banding operations are only conducted from late July through October. It has been active since 1978. Membership includes newsletter and a chance to see banding and possibly be trained to band. We just banded a black-throated gray on Sept 14,1996. Selkirk at Selkirk Provincial Park just outside of Selkirk, Ruthven at Ruthven Historic Park just outside of Cayuga, and Rock Point which is located at Rock Point Provincial Park outside of Dunnville.
All stations have mist nets and run census routes.
They are in operation from approximately the third week in July to the first week in November and from the third weekend in March until the first weekend in June. Volunteers should contact the individual banders in charge. Thunder Cape Bird Observatory Migration Monitoring at Thunder Cape Bird Observatory Thunder Cape Bird Observatory is a joint project of the Thunder Bay Field Naturalists, the Long Point Bird Observatory, and the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources working in partnership with Sleeping Giant Provincial Park and the Canadian Coast Guard. I'm Ellen Smout London birder and watcher at Hawk Cliff Ontario. We get some pretty good numbers of raptors at the Cliff in the fall.