These mid-season (although slightly early) days are great. A huge mix of species - 17 total today if we count new, returns from previous seasons and recaps from this year. Six new species for the season (see below). As a Barr Birding Festival visitor commented, it was like Christmas as each new bag was opened. Here's a breakdown of the 40 new captures today:
Downy Woodpecker 1 Dusky Flycatcher 1 Red-breasted Nuthatch 1 (FOS) White-breasted Nuthatch 1 (FOS. I don't remember ever catching both nuthatches on the same day before.) Rock Wren 1 (FOS) Ruby-crowned Kinglet 2 (FOS) Hermit Thrush 2 (FOS) American Robin 1 return, banded 10/10/15 (FOS) Orange-crowned Warbler 4 Yellow Warbler 1 Yellow-rumped Warbler, Audubon's 1 Townsend's Warbler 1 Wilson's Warbler 13 Chipping Sparrow 7 Lincoln's Sparrow 3 (Species caught not mentioned above - birds that had been banded earlier this year - were American Redstart and MacGillivray's Warbler.) 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. 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/9bbf2dc1-8902-4cd5-9862-2f7154d6a0ee%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
