Hi Birders! We just finished our first official week of banding at Barr. There was also some banding the prior week, as our seasonal banders (folks going to Chico, Nebraska, and Ridgway) were getting oriented.
We've had a good start, banding 50 or more birds in 3 of the first 10 days. Not surprisingly, Wilson's Warblers dominate - 234 of the 400 individual birds caught to date. There have been 95 other warblers (Yellows, Orange-crowned, MacGillivray's, Townsend's, Yellowthroats, Northern Waterthrushes, an Ovenbird and a Redstart), so +80% so far have been warblers. Today was one of the 50+ days - we caught 55 new birds in 3 hours, closing early at 9:30 because of wind and drizzle. The breakdown matched what we've been seeing for the days we've been open: House Wren 6 Orange-crowned Warbler 5 Yellow Warbler 6 American Redstart 1 Wilson's Warbler 36 Song Sparrow 1 We will be open 6 days each week, weather permitting, through October 16. We are closed every Monday in September, then October 4 and 12. We are opening nets at about 6:30 a.m. and we start closing between 11 a.m. and 12 noon. We will open later and/or close earlier if it is very hot, very cold, wet, windy, etc. There are school groups most weekday mornings, usually arriving around 9:30. Best times to visit, if you like lots of birds and fewer humans, are early mornings during the week and Sundays. Come visit! Meredith McBurney Bander/Biologist 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 cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/b24cfe62-5704-4e88-b4f8-e6383ed6c05d%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
