On a day with weather perfect for banding, we caught 50 new birds and a wide variety of species. Wilson's Warblers barely beat out Chipping Sparrows as the most caught bird of the day. 7 warbler and 5 sparrow species. First Yellow-rumped Warbler of the season. And 3 juvenile Mourning Doves, on perhaps their first day out of the nest. You could tell from their development that they hatched several days apart - the oldest with almost fully grown wing and tail feathers, and the youngest barely able to fly.
Here's the breakdown: Mourning Dove 3 (FOS) Dusky Flycatcher 3 House Wren 2 Swainson's Thrush 1 Orange-crowned Warbler 4 Yellow Warbler 2 Yellow-rumped Warbler, Myrtle 1 (FOS) American Redstart 1 Northern Waterthrush 1 Common Yellowthroat 1 Wilson's Warbler 14 Chipping Sparrow 13 Clay-colored Sparrow 1 Brewer's Sparrow 1 Lincoln's Sparrow 1 White-crowned Sparrow, Gambel's 1 Tomorrow, Saturday 9/10, is the Barr Lake Birding Festival. Lots of booths and activities for the whole family in the area near the Nature Center, and lots of visitors to the banding station. We are open 6 days each week, weather permitting, through October 16.We are closed every Monday in September, then October 4 and 12. We are opening nets at about 6:30 a.m. and 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/e9c071b8-ede1-4d7e-bde1-33e1ab211458%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
