Three more warm and sticky days of banding, but we remain happy to be out with the birds! Modest numbers each day - 43 on Wed, 39 on Thurs, and 45 today. Highlights include a Vesper Sparrow (something of a rarity at the station), a hatch year Blue Grosbeak (dad is around, we are hoping to capture....), and a Brown Thrasher. Here is a breakdown of the birds caught today (which is pretty representative of these last three days):
Western Wood-pewee 4 House Wren 7 Brown Thrasher 1 Orange-crowned Warbler 1 Yellow Warbler 14 MacGillivray's Warbler 2 Common Yellowthroat 1 Wilson's Warbler 13 Yellow-breasted Chat 1 Song Sparrow 1 If you'd like to visit this fall (and we hope you will): Due to restrictions related to Covid-19, we have had to change our historic practice of encouraging birders and other interested folks to drop in whenever we did not have a formal school group in attendance. In this year of social distancing (and without school groups), we are requiring visitors to make a reservation and we will have only 6 visitors at the station at a time. We are doing three one-hour time slots, from 8-9, 9-10, and 10-11, on Tuesdays and then Thursdays through Sundays, starting this week and running through October 11. There is a $5 per person fee; scholarships are available to those unable to pay. All visitors, staff and volunteers will be wearing masks and people will be expected to socially distance. To register and for more information go to www.birdconservancy.org/bandregister. Please let me know if you have questions! Meredith McBurney Bander, 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/1242a289-dc73-49d7-87af-3b78f76134e0o%40googlegroups.com.
