Hi All,
Today was "dress rehearsal" for our 5 week run of spring banding at Chatfield. We will open tomorrow, sharing our first "official" day with ~200 Comcast volunteers coming out to work on Audubon projects. While finishing up our preparations today, we caught 12 birds, starting off with...drum roll...an Orange-crowned Warbler, followed by the first of three Yellow-rumped Warblers. Our catches included two birds that we banded at about this time last year. Here's the day's breakdown: Black-capped Chickadee 3 new, 1 banded last year 4/28 Orange-crowned Warbler 1 Yellow-rumped Warbler, Audubon's 3 (There were LOTS of Yellow-rumpeds around, but they were high in the trees, above the nets) Spotted Towhee 1 banded last year 4/28 Song Sparrow 1 Lincoln's Sparrow 1 Dark-eyed Junco, Oregon 1 We will be open daily, weather permitting, through June 2 EXCEPT for May 10-11. We are opening nets about 6:30, so will have birds back at the station by about 7:15. Come early to see more birds and avoid the school groups that will begin arriving ~9:30 most weekdays. Look forward to seeing many of you this spring! Meredith Meredith McBurney Biologist/Bander Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory 303-329-8091 <http://www.rmbo.org/> cid:[email protected] Celebrating 25 Years of Bird and Habitat Conservation -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
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