Hey COBirders, LOL - Yup SIX more Northern Waterthrush were banded at Clear Spring Ranch - one Saturday, and 5 Sunday. That makes 13 for the season. Unbelievable.
It was a perfect morning for bird movement - high fog, Southeast breeze, cool temp, and the banding reflected that. 24 birds were caught in the first hour, and 58 total for the morning, of 24 species.. Highlights - Black-chinned Hummingbird M,F, netted, but unbanded Broad-tailed HB, F, same Gray Catbird - 5 Virginia’s Warbler - (SY M) MacGillivray’s Warbler - Ad M Yellow Warbler - 5 Lincoln’s Sparrow - 5 Mountain White-crowned Sparrow Green-tailed Towhee FOS Bullock’s Orioles (Ad F, SY M) Lazuli Bunting (SY M) Clay-colored Sparrow Chipping Sparrow - 12 Dusky Flycatcher Hermit Thrush Yellow-breasted Chat - 3 - SY M, 2 AD M In addition I had a pair of Belted Kingfishers flyover, and just missed netting a “spanking” male Indigo Bunting. Lots of same-species chasing , and lots of Brown-headed Cowbirds following. A pretty good morning! Steve Brown Colo Spgs -- 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/DA549DF2-0095-4514-8C27-380FAE837D88%40gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.