Thanks to Dick Filby for letting me know of my typo in the link to register to visit the banding station. Here is the correct one:
www.birdconservancy.org/bandingregister <https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.birdconservancy.org%2Fbandingregister&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cf87183f170d447f0d0bf08d84af341e1%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637341755919863013&sdata=iRqCE%2BF7Vvw9AEVHr0Apz1eV5PivQ9QDX8FKIATWnkU%3D&reserved=0> Meredith McBurney Bander, Bird Conservancy of the Rockies On Thursday, August 27, 2020 at 5:15:32 PM UTC-6, meredith wrote: > > 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/73fcedb0-80bb-47f5-8f13-5079090a0340o%40googlegroups.com.
