Chipping Sparrows continue to arrive in record numbers - banded anothre 48 today. They total almost a third of the birds banded this season. Today, we banded a total of 61 birds (also recaptured 12, most of which were banded yesterday):
House Wren 1 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 1 Hermit Thrush 1 Gray Catbird 1 Orange-crowned Warbler 1 Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) 1 Wilson's Warbler 1 Chipping Sparrow 48 Lincoln's Sparrow 1 White-crowned Sparrow (Gambel's) 5 Open 2 more weeks! Daily for the next week, weather permitting, except for Friday (10/7). Thursday evening (10/6) and Saturday morning (10/8), we will be doing a program with the Denver Museum of Nature and Science aimed at improving our skills at identifying similar species. On Thursday evening we will be at the Museum in their ornithology collection, comparing skins of the various species of, for example, Spizella sparrows and subspecies of Yellow-rumped Warblers. We will take the knowledge to the banding station on Saturday morning, where we hope to see the species alive in the hand. For more information and to register, contact Andy Doll, Museum Ornithology Fellow, at [email protected]. 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.
