Slow last day - Maybe Mother Nature telling us it really was time to pack it in for the year! Only 7 new birds banded:
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1 Orange-crowned Warbler 1 Yellow-rumped Warbler, Myrtle 1 Song Sparrow 1 Lincoln's Sparrow 1 Dark-eyed Junco, Oregon 2 Our total for the season was about 1,430 of 61 species, above average for the past 10 years, and 35% more birds than the last 2 years. I think an analysis will show that the numbers of House Wrens and Yellow Warblers were low, at least in part because the lake water was too high to get the nets up for mid-to-late August banding. Our Wilson Warbler numbers were the best since 2006. Orange-crowned Warbler numbers also seemed to be high, although I haven't done a count yet. Of our regular sparrow species, most seemed to be about normal except for Chipping which were pretty scarce. One final interesting point - not a single rain day. We banded 6 days a week for 6 weeks. Time to rest up and dream of spring! Meredith McBurney Biologist/Bander 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/9a19f64e-9f7f-4f04-8d87-f794462c62c1%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
