Banding numbers continued in the teens for Wed and Thurs:
Wed, 10/2, 14 banded: Blue Jay 1 (FOS) Orange-crowned Warbler 1 Yellow-rumped Warbler, Audubon's 2 MacGillivray's Warbler 1 Chipping Sparrow 1 Song Sparrow 1 White-crowned Sparrow, Gambel's 3 Dark-eyed Junco, Pink-sided 2 Dark-eyed Junco, Gray-headed 1 House Sparrow 1 Thurs, 10/3, 12 banded: Ruby-crowned Kinglet 2 Yellow-rumped Warbler, Audubon's 1 Wilson's Warbler 1 Song Sparrow 1 White-crowned Sparrow, Gambel's 7 Barr Lake is being allowed to fill, so the water is rising and there are lots of birds in close - between our banding station duties, we picked out Widgeons, Coots (LOTS), Green and Blue Wing Teals, Pintails, Shovelers, Western Grebes, various Gulls, Pelicans, etc, plus Bald Eagles, a Red-tailed Hawk and a Northern Harrier. The 7 a.m. birding hike tomorrow morning, led by Greg Miller, could be great! Then, you can warm up back at the Old Stone House while participating in Noppadol Paothong's photography workshop. His presentation last night at DMNS on his award-winning work photographing grassland grouse was fascinating. These and other events are part of RMBO annual picnic - get all the details at www.rmbo.org. Banding station is open Sat and Sun, then closed Mon. Then, open Tues through Sun, weather permitting, for our last week of fall banding. Meredith McBurney Biologist/Bander Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory 303-329-8091 Celebrating 25 Years of Bird and Habitat Conservation -- 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/BLU177-DS140D6F51056951958C9383D2100%40phx.gbl. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
