I think we caught the last of the "snowstorm" birds today; a little slower than the last 2 days and we were recapturing some that had stuck around. But, all in all, an interesting day, with lots of human visitors, including Hugh and Urling's Beginning Birder class and the Front Range Birding Co group led by Chuck Aid.
Here's a breakdown of the 30 new captures today: House Wren 1 (banded in 2009!) Ruby-crowned Kinglet 2 Swainson's Thrush 1 (FOS) Hermit Thrush 3 Orange-crowned Warbler 4 Nashville Warbler 1(Not an easy ID, but Hugh Kingery, Jim Schmoker, and Nicole Buyck were there to help make the determination!) Yellow-rumped Warbler, Myrtle 5 Yellow-rumped Warbler, Audubon 8 Yellow-rumped Warbler, Hybrid 1 (We had just had a conversation with Chuck Aid's group about what a Audubon-Myrtle hybrid might look like, and the next bird out of the bag was..a hybrid. Yellow throat becoming white where the throat wrapped around the back of very dark auriculars.) Common Yellowthroat 1 (FOS) Brewer's Sparrow 1 (FOS) Lincoln's Sparrow 1 Dark-eyed Junco, Pinks-sided 1 (Just seems wrong to be banding Juncos and Warblers at the same time!) Looking forward to what tomorrow will bring... 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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