It was an overcast morning, and we got off to a very slow start. There were a lot of birds moving around, including a two Cooper's Hawks, but it took a couple of hours for birds to start hitting the nets (and the hawks were gone by then). Ultimately, things did pick up, and we caught 12 new birds and one from a previous day. Most of our captures were Wilson's Warblers. We have been catching a lot of very lean Wilson's, which suggests that they are locals that haven't bulked up yet. Today we caught our first chunky Wilson's, and we wondered if it was a visitor. We also added two new species to the season list: Yellow-breasted Chat and Lincoln's Sparrow. That brings the total number of individuals to 72 and species to 20.
Amber Carver Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory Ridgway State Park -- 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.
