Hi COBirders,
So .... at sunrise it was warm, calm, and quiet - and no birds to band - 3 in the first 90 minutes - it's going to be a quiet day. OMG! At 8:00 we had waves of Myrtle, Audubon's, and Orange-crowned Warblers go through. In an hour we'd matched our best DAY of the season. Total for the day about 81 newly banded birds, 60 between 8:00 and 10:00. A pretty good day, as you'll see below (!) RMBO Banding Highlights - *****BLUE-HEADED VIREO****** (FOS, duh. LOTS of pictures available), FOS male Bullock's Oriole (2), FOS male Lazuli Bunting, FOS Brown-headed Cowbird, lots of warblers. Approximate numbers of new banded birds: Still re-counting when I left- Least Flycatcher - 4 Blue-headed Vireo - 1 House Wren - 6 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 1 Swainson's Thrush - 2 Hermit Thursh - 2 Am Robin - 1 Orange-crowned Warbler - 21 Myrtle (YR) Warbler - 21 Audubon's (YR) Warbler - 6 ...Yellow-rumped Warblers - Unidentified, possible intergrades - 4 Wilson's Warbler - 1 Western Tanager (male) - 1 Chipping Sparrow - 5 Lazuli Bunting - 1 Brown-headed Cowbird - 1 Bullock's Oriole (males) - 2 We didn't get any reports from other birders on the ranch - but we saw a possible N Waterthrush in the brush, twice, at the end of the day. At least one Say's Phoebe was hanging around the station, and W Kingbirds, higher in the canopy. More female hummers buzzing by - not id'd, and a gorgeous, dark Swainson's Hawk perched, on the ranch, on the drive in. posted for Nancy Gobris, Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory Steve Brown Colorado Springs --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Join us at the 2009 Convention in Alamosa: http://cfo-link.org/convention/index.php You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.as/group/cobirds?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
