A nice cool morning with a great mix of species! Two new species for the season, both of which are unusual captures for the station: We started the day with a lovely (and very feisty) young male Rose-breasted Grosbeak. We also had a young Nashville Warbler, who had managed to survive what looked to have been a severe (but completely healed) injury to the back of her head. Total of 40 new birds:
Downy Woodpecker 1 Black-capped Chickadee 2 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1 Hermit Thrush 5 Gray Catbird 1 Orange-crowned Warbler 8 Nashville Warbler 1 Yellow-rumped Warbler, Myrtle 1 Yellow-rumped Warbler, Audubon's 4 Common Yellowthroat 1 Wilson's Warbler 2 Spotted Towhee 2 Song Sparrow 5 Lincoln's Sparrow 1 Dark-eyed Junco, Oregon 3 Dark-eyed Junco, Pink-sided 1 Rose-breasted Grosbeak 1 We have just a little over a week to go for this banding season....our last day will be Sunday, October 11. We will be open every day until then EXCEPT Thursday, 10/8. We are opening nets about 6:45, and running until noon or whenever it gets too hot or too windy or too whatever. School groups arrive about 9:30 a.m. most weekdays. Meredith McBurney Biologist/Bander Barr Lake Banding Station Bird Conservancy of the Rockies -- 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/2c1113f9-e7ed-4914-b1ad-949d2750e9e3%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
