Today's weather was almost identical to yesterday, but yesterday there was lots of bird activity and today almost none. Only banded 10 birds today:
Hammond's Flycatcher 1 (first flycatcher in 12 days) Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1 Orange-crowned Warbler 3 Yellow-rumped Warbler, Audubon's 1 Wilson's Warbler 1 Song Sparrow 2 Lincoln's Sparrow 1 We also caught a Black-capped Chickadee that we banded in 2010. I also might report on a recovery of a Song Sparrow from last week. (A "recovery" is a bird that we catch that was banded elsewhere.) When we caught it, I figured it had been banded at Barr; I've always assumed that most if not all of the Song Sparrows at Barr are year-round residents. After searching my Barr records and finding nothing, I asked our banding coordinator, who discovered that the bird had been banded earlier this fall at the Allegra Colister Reserve in Boulder County, outside of Lyons. So, a short story about a short-distance migrant! We are open 6 days each week, weather permitting, through October 16. We have 2 more closed days - Tues, Oct 4 and Wed, Oct 12. We are opening nets at about 6:50 a.m. and most days 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/2fc3fe1a-09d1-4845-a403-71010fb0b51d%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
