Bird Conservancy Banding Report - Barr Lake Station, 9/30/17

[Meredith...@birdconservancy.org]

In yet another weird weather day in this unpredictable season, we intrepid banding station workers made our way to Barr in the thickest fog that any of us could remember.  We sat in my car for about an hour, waiting until we could at least see across the ditch.  We then ventured out to the station and opened gradually, really waiting for the sun to break through and dry things out, which finally occurred about 9:30.  But, fog or sun, it was one of the slowest days of the season - we caught a total of 14 birds, including new and recap,  I think out slowest day in a very slow season.  Here were the new captures:

Downy Woodpecker 1

Orange-crowned Warbler 1

Wilson's Warbler 1

White-crowned Sparrow, Gambel's 5

The joys of running a banding station!

Come visit! We are open 6 days per week (*CLOSED Mondays*), weather permitting, through October 15. We are opening nets at 7 a.m. and should have birds back at the station before 7:45. We will close most days by about 11:30. School groups arrive most weekdays at
about 9:30.
 
Meredith McBurney
Bander
Barr Lake Station
Bird Conservancy of the Rockies