Hi Birders! Our fall migration banding season officially began here at Chico Basin Ranch (fee area) this past week and will continue through Saturday, October 1st. We're off to a great start having banded a little under 200 birds of 27 species. Highlights were definitely the Great-crested Flycatcher on Saturday, the second in our history of banding here (the first was in 2011) and drumroll please.... a BELL's VIREO, eastern nonetheless, banded this morning!! Again, only the second time that the Bird Conservancy of the Rockies has banded one at Chico Basin Ranch and the last time was in 2002.
Other than those pretty rare-ish highlights, we're seeing the usual suspects for this time of year- a lot of Wilson's Warblers, Brown Thrashers, House Wrens, and the spizella are just starting to arrive with a mixed (Clay-coloured, Chipping, and Brewer's) flock of 30 being caught on Saturday. Our Barn Owls are still hanging around and flying pretty low during the day and the birders who stopped by the station today were treated with many a good photo opportunity of them. As aforementioned, our banding season continues through October 1st and if you're in the area, please stop by and say hi and see what we've been catching as you just never know this time of year; it's so exciting! Laura-Marie Koitsch 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/efb467bd-36b6-4834-8f06-2fc3ba6391fa%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
