Barr Banding Station Update, 9/30/15

[meredith]

FLICKERS!  Five of them in 4 different nets (in close proximity to each other), all at the same time. One male and four females.  Raised a few practical questions ("Can someone find me another really big bird bag?"), but mostly they created an incredible high for the experienced team of Bird Conservancy staff and volunteers that found unadulterated joy in getting them out of the nets, banded, processed, photographed and shown off to an appreciative group of Fort Morgan high school students.  They really are lovely birds with big personalities.  

Otherwise, a nice fall morning, dominated by Orange-crowneds and White-crowneds:

Red-shafted Flicker 4 (the 5th was a recapture, banded last week)

House Wren 2

Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1

Hermit Thrush 4

Gray Catbird 1

Orange-crowned Warbler 7

Yellow-rumped Warbler, Audubon's 2

Song Sparrow 2

White-crowned Sparrow, Gambel's 9

Dark-eyed Junco, Oregon 2

We are CLOSED TOMORROW, 10/1. We are open 6 days per week, weather permitting, for 1 1/2 more weeks (through Sunday, October 11). We are opening nets at 6:30, and run 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