Greetings from the Western Slope! We opened our banding station at Ridgway State Park on Tuesday 9/7. It's been a slow season here, with 81 birds of 22 species banded in the last week. 4 hatch year Black-chinned Hummingbirds have also been caught and released, unbanded. We have been averaging about 10-15 new birds banded each day. However, we have been busy with education. We've had school groups each day, ranging in size from 30-100 students!
Totals for the last week: Black-capped Chickadee - 4 Yellow Warbler - 2 Wilson's Warbler - 14 Nashville Warbler - 1 Black-throated Gray Warbler - 2 Orange-crowned Warbler - 2 MacGillivray's Warbler - 2 Audubon's Warbler - 8 Hermit Thrush - 1 Cassin's Vireo - 2 Plumbeous Vireo - 1 Western Tanager - 1 Western Bluebird - 1 Green-tailed Towhee - 4 Spotted Towhee - 1 Lincoln's Sparrow - 4 Song Sparrow - 8 Mountain White-crowned Sparrow - 4 Townsend's Solitaire - 1 Gray Catbird - 9 Red-naped Sapsucker - 1 American Robin - 8 We will be banding at Ridgway Thursday and Friday. Beginning next Monday through 10/15, our station will move up to Connected Lakes State Park. We are currently banding Monday-Friday, 640-1240, weather permitting. Come join us! Alicia Bachman Bander, Western Slope Bird Conservancy of the Rockies -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cobirds?hl=en?hl=en * All posts should be signed with the poster's full name and city. Include bird species and location in the subject line when appropriate * Join Colorado Field Ornithologists https://cobirds.org/CFO/Membership/ --- 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/CAEL-svxuQ0nq_DGE8j-p_1SeyDUq8p9B2NMhZaX2fDAWjF2Daw%40mail.gmail.com.
