No one found the Black-throated Blue Warbler or the Philadelphia Vireo again today, so we banded....guess what?.........Chipping Sparrows. Thirty of our 46 new birds today were Chippers, bringing the season total to 261. This compares with 42 CHSPs at this time last year. On the other hand, we have only banded 217 Wilson's Warblers, compared with 461 at this time last year. (Overall, we are just slightly off of last year's numbers at this time, 984 vs 1015.) The other species allowing us to maintain similar total numbers this year is Yellow Warblers, which are well above last year.
Here's the day's new bandings (we also had 13 recaps from recent days): Sharp-shinned Hawk 1 (FOS) House Wren 2 Orange-crowned Warbler 3 Yellow-rumped Warbler, Myrtle 1 Wilson's Warbler 3 Spotted Towhee 1 Chipping Sparrow 30 Brewer's Sparrow 1 Song Sparrow 1 White-crowned Sparrow, Gambel's 3 Closed tomorrow (Mon, 9/26). Then open daily through next weekend. Days off in October TBA. Meredith McBurney Bander, Barr Lake Station, Adams County 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.
