Started with fog; sun finally came out about 9:30. A slow and slightly strange morning bird-wise. In addition to the usual birds that we've been seeing the past few days, we caught 2 VERY COMMON birds that we almost never catch at this station - a starling and a magpie. Both of these species have big, bold personalities and are beautiful birds in the hand, with lots of iridescent feathers. The magpie was especially exciting for us, because today's crew had never had one in the hand. (We last caught one in 2008.) Amanda, who just finished 2 weeks banding in Chico and was out visiting today, and I agreed that the BBMA made today worthwhile! Here's the rundown of the 18 new for the day:
Black-billed Magpie 1 Black-capped Chickadee 2 European Starling 1 Orange-crowned Warbler 3 Spotted Towhee 2 White-crowned Sparrow, Gambel's 5 Dark-eyed Junco, Pink-sided 1 House Sparrow 3 This is our last week - we will take down the station after banding on Sunday, 10/11. Our closed day this week is 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 slow 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/d73d1f43-68e9-4f9f-968e-1010a5d22697%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
