Today was much like yesterday - cooler weather and somewhat more birds. 22 birds banded, plus 2 returns from prior years:
Least Flycatcher 1 (FOS) Swainson's Thrush 1 Gray Catbird 3 new, 1 return (Banded 2012) Virginia's Warbler 1 Yellow Warbler 2 new, 1 return (Banded 2010) MacGillivray's Warbler 2 Wilson's Warbler 1 Yellow-breasted Chat 2 Green-tailed Towhee 1 Spotted Towhee 1 Lincoln's Sparrow 3 White-crowned Sparrow, Mountain 3 (All White-crowneds before today were Gambel's. Do the Mountains move later?) Red-winged Blackbirds 1 It now "feels" like the bulk of migration should be happening -the weather is right and most of the trees and bushes seem to be filling out. Or, maybe the birds are just going to drift through slowly - the opposite of last year, when they seemed to go immediately to their breeding grounds. (For comparison, today, with 2 of our 5 weeks still remaining, we passed the total number of individual birds caught last year.) Early spring v late spring. Sheesh. Open daily, weather permitting, through June 2. Meredith McBurney Biologist/Bander Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory 303-329-8091 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.
