Bird Conservancy Banding Report - Chatfield Station, 6/2/16

[meredith...@birdconservancy.org]

A beautiful day, but few birds for our final day of banding this spring.  Banded just 12 birds:

Swainson's Thrush 1

Gray Catbird 1

Yellow Warbler 3

Common Yellowthroat 2

Yellow-breasted Chat 1

Western Tanager 1

Spotted Towhee 1

Lincoln's Sparrow 1

American Goldfinch 1

We started the season with a Black-capped Chickadee and ended with a Yellow Warbler - pretty fitting for this station.  We caught 713 individual birds - 654 new and 59 that were banded here in prior years - above our average. Many more Yellow-rumped Warblers than usual, but fewer Yellows; lots of Western Wood-pewees but very few Empids.  More details when I get data recorded in a few weeks!

Meredith McBurney

Bander, Chatfield Station

Bird Conservancy of the Rockies