Still a modest number of birds but a more interesting morning! Started the day with a GREAT CRESTED FLYCATCHER! A big and beautiful and feisty bird. The second for the station - the first was caught in 2013 the day after the big storm. We also had our first White-crowned Sparrows; I thought this was early, but just checked and our first last year was on 9/1. In the breakdown for the day, you will note fewer warbler species and more seed-eaters:
Downy Woodpecker 1 Hammond's Flycatcher 1 (FOS) Great Crested Flycatcher 1 House Wren 1 Wilson's Warbler 18 Clay-colored Sparrow 2 Brewer's Sparrow 1 White-crowned Sparrow, Gambel's 3 (FOS) Lazuli Bunting 1 We are 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 [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/a564f9e9-ead1-47f6-bbf2-9bc9b91baf83%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
