Still not lots of birds around, but between the banding station nets and the feeder nets at the Nature Center we managed to catch enough birds for Hugh and Urling Kingery's beginning birder class, a large group of Boy Scouts, and an ornithology class from Metro State. Busy morning!
House Wren 1 Gray Catbird 1 (FOS) Yellow Warbler 1 Green-tailed Towhee 1 (FOS) Gambel's White-crowned Sparrow 1 Red-winged Blackbird 3 Brown-headed Cowbird 1 new, 1 banded last year on exact same day. House Finch 2 Plus, a female Black-chinned Hummingbird And, last but certainly not least, last night we celebrated the official opening of the Chatfield Banding Pavilion! We have gone from a picnic table in a weedy turn-around at the end of a dirt road to a wonderful structure, designed and built specifically for banding birds and doing education programs by 5th year architecture students from CU Denver. Denver Water, on whose property the facility sits, provided the funding for materials. We celebrated with about 100 friends - donors, board members, volunteers, and the professor and students who did the work. We are thrilled, and look forward to showing our new digs off to many of you sometime during the next 4 weeks! Meredith McBurney Bander, Chatfield Station Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cobirds?hl=en.
