Today we experienced "typical" Colorado weather. Opened under overcast skies. An hour or so later, we temporarily closed the more exposed nets because it had started to mist. By 11 a.m. we had full sun, and we were closing because it was starting to be too hot.
Still managed to catch 51 new birds. Today was a Chipping Sparrow day; we only caught 13, but they seemed to be everywhere, flying around eluding our nets. All 13 CHSPs were hatch year birds; I thought about all the issues raised regarding CHSP migration by Ted Floyd in his recent article in Colorado Birds. Lots of quite young birds today, including a recently fledged American Goldfinch and 2 very rowdy young Robins. Here's the rundown: Western Wood-pewee 2 Dusky Flycatcher 2 Cordilleran Flycatcher 1 Black-capped Chickadee 5 new, 1 banded in 2009, 1 banded in 2010 House Wren 3 American Robin 2 Gray Catbird 1 Orange-crowned Warbler 4 Yellow Warbler 8 Wilson's Warbler 6 Chipping Sparrow 13 Brewer's Sparrow 1 (FOS) American Goldfinch 1 Looking forward to a Labor Day Weekend of birds and cooler weather! Meredith McBurney Bander, Barr Lake Station Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory -- 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.com/group/cobirds?hl=en.
