The Cedar Waxwings arrived yesterday - a big flock came into the station area as we were finishing closing the nets. One actually perched briefly on the top trammel of the last open net as we arrived to close it, did the bird equivalent of thumbing his nose at us, and took off. Today we managed to catch 2 of the lovely creatures; hoping for a few more tomorrow on our closing day!
Here's the breakdown for the 29 new captures today. The numbers continue to be solid for the last week in May: Western Wood-pewee 2 Western Flycatcher 1 Dusky Flycatcher 1 Black-capped Chickadee 1 House Wren 2 Swainson's Thrush 4 Gray Catbird 2 Cedar Waxwing 2 Yellow Warbler 5 Wilson's Warbler 4 Song Sparrow 1 Mountain White-crowned Sparrow 2 Bullock's Oriole 1 American Goldfinch 1 Tomorrow is the last day of spring banding at Chatfield! Meredith McBurney Bander, Chatfield Station Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/4ee230c9-39fd-495e-a074-1cdc29a0e888%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
