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 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/9bbf2dc1-8902-4cd5-9862-2f7154d6a0ee%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
