Our 'just another quiet fall morning at Barr" was interrupted at about 8:40 when a mixed flock of Flickers and Starlings came through. Both species have been around for weeks, and we've caught a few Flickers, but this morning we got 3 of each on the same net run. A somewhat raucous few minutes as we extricated these birds with out-sized personalities from 2 adjacent nets. Ended the day with 4 Flickers, one of which was a gorgeous Intergrade - a red-shafted head pattern with beautiful yellow on the wings and tail, and one of which was banded on September 30 last year, the day we caught 5 in the same net run. A nice morning, with 18 new, 1 return and a good mix of species:
Red-shafted Flicker 2 new, 1 banded last year Flicker Intergrade 1 House Wren 1 Hermit Thrush 1 Gray Catbird 1 European Starling 3 Orange-crowned Warbler 1 Yellow-rumped Warbler, Audubon's 1 Wilson's Warbler 1 Spotted Towhee 1 Song Sparrow 2 Lincoln's Sparrow 1 White-crowned Sparrow, Gambel's 2 We are open 6 days each week, weather permitting, through October 16. This week we are CLOSED TUES, OCT 4; next week, 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/3ebcb904-e675-4fa9-848c-6cb67da2fa51%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
