We spent most of the first couple of hours this morning recatching and checking increases (or not) in the fat and weight of birds we'd banded over the past few days. Then things shifted a bit and we caught an interesting assortment of species before the heat shut us down. 31 new birds, 23 recaps. Here's the breakdown of the 31:
Downy Woodpecker 2 Red-shafted Flicker 1 (interestingly, haven't caught one since 2012) House Wren 1 Swainson's Thrush 1 Hermit Thrush 1 American Robin 1 Orange-crowned Warbler 1 Yellow Warbler 2 Yellow-rumped Warbler, Audubon's 5 Townsend's Warbler 1 Wilson's Warbler 11 Green-tailed Towhee 1 Spotted Towhee 1 Lincoln's Sparrow 2 We are CLOSED tomorrow/Monday. We will then be open daily until our next closed day, which will be a week from Wednesday, 9/23. We are open 6 days per week, weather permitting, through Sunday, October 11. We now have almost all of our nets up - the ground at the outer nets is still muddy, but we are catching birds out there, and we are able to stay partially open later in the morning because there is more shade at the outer nets. We are opening nets at 6:30, and will run until noon or whenever it gets too hot. School groups arrive about 9:30 a.m. most weekdays. It is wise to come early to beat the school groups and for more/better birds. Meredith McBurney Biologist/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 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/367dfbde-b9b8-44a9-8c50-15142468dfcb%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
