A slow day for mid-season, with only 22 new birds caught (plus 13 birds
recaught that were banded earlier this season). Today's visitors - first
an ornithology class from Front Range Community College and then super
birders Hugh and Urling Kingery, Nina Routh and Norm Lewis - kept things
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Very weird day - banded 40 new birds today, half caught on the 10:30 net
run. Which means we had an average of about 2 on each of the other runs
today, so we spent most of the morning trying to stay awake to be ready if
the big run came! That big run included 12 hatch year Chipping Sparrows
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