A nice cool morning with a great mix of species! Two new species for the season, both of which are unusual captures for the station: We started the day with a lovely (and very feisty) young male Rose-breasted Grosbeak. We also had a young Nashville Warbler, who had managed to survive what looked to have been a severe (but completely healed) injury to the back of her head. Total of 40 new birds:
Downy Woodpecker 1 Black-capped Chickadee 2 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1 Hermit Thrush 5 Gray Catbird 1 Orange-crowned Warbler 8 Nashville Warbler 1 Yellow-rumped Warbler, Myrtle 1 Yellow-rumped Warbler, Audubon's 4 Common Yellowthroat 1 Wilson's Warbler 2 Spotted Towhee 2 Song Sparrow 5 Lincoln's Sparrow 1 Dark-eyed Junco, Oregon 3 Dark-eyed Junco, Pink-sided 1 Rose-breasted Grosbeak 1 We have just a little over a week to go for this banding season....our last day will be Sunday, October 11. We will be open every day until then EXCEPT Thursday, 10/8. We are opening nets about 6:45, and running until noon or whenever it gets too hot or too windy or too whatever. School groups arrive about 9:30 a.m. most weekdays. 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/2c1113f9-e7ed-4914-b1ad-949d2750e9e3%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
