Thought folks might be interested in the dead gray cat bird a friend of mine found in Washington Depot, CT that had a band. Thanks to folks at CTBirds I got the address for sending the band to the USGC. The band was just to small for my friend or me to read the band number, so we could not send the information on the band to the USGS via email. I had just about given up hearing from the USGS concerning the band on the dead gray cat bird. Today I got a "Certificate of Appreciation" from the USGS concerning the band with the following information:   Band #  1991-74715 Banded: 05/15/2008 Species: Gray Catbird Sex: Unknown Age of Bird: Hatched in 2007 Location of banding: Island Beach State Park, Ocean County, New Jersey Bander: Dr. Yunick, New York Encounter Data Location: Near Washington Depot, Connecticut Encountered (Estimated date found dead): 05/18/2008   Interesting to note that catbird was a young bird. Most birds are lucky if they make it past a year old.   David Babington Washington, CT