Hi Everyone! We are just finishing up our second week of fall bird banding here at Chico Basin Ranch (fee area) in Pueblo County with a little over 650 new birds banded in total. We are finally starting to see an end to the 'new' (ie, not previously banded) Brown Thrashers, having now banded more of them in the last two weeks than we have in the last three fall seasons combined! Of course, Wilson's Warblers are still the most numerous species that we both see and band most days and we had a really nice movement of adult males this past Sunday.
Two big highlights this past week were the male Canada Warbler banded last Thursday, which was a first for this station (and super exciting!), and the Magnolia Warbler banded today, a bird that we have not banded here in the fall since 2012. This past Saturday we also had a handsome Audubon's Warbler, a bird that we don't catch as often in the fall as we do in the spring. We also recaptured a few birds that were banded in previous years, including an American Robin and you guessed it, a Brown Thrasher. We're up to 45 different species banded this season, and 47 different ones caught if you include the two species of hummingbirds that, although we do not have a permit to band them, we do still incidentally catch them in our nets and check them for bands before releasing. The banding station here will be open ever day, weather permitting, until October 1st. So please stop by and visit if you're in the area! Laura-Marie Koitsch Bird Bander/Ornithologist 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/ebd10560-aaa4-4a43-9bd3-b16bf4ea6f74%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
