Bird Conservancy Banding Report - Chatfield, 5/2/16

[meredith...@birdconservancy.org]

We were pleasantly surprised to arrive at 6:30 this morning and find that our nets were not frozen, and we were shedding jackets by 8.  A calm morning with a nice mix of species at the banding station.  We did have a lull mid-morning, so we opened the nets at the feeders at the Nature Center.  The White-crowned Sparrows were engaged in a feeding frenzy, and we caught 18 of them in about a half hour.  Here's the break-down for the day:

Grey Flycatcher 1

House Wren 1

Blue-grey Gnatcatcher 1

Hermit Thrush 4

Yellow-rumped Warbler, Myrtle 2

Yellow-rumped Warbler, Audubon 8

Yellow-rumped Warbler, Intergrade 1

Wilson's Warbler 1

Song Sparrow 2

White-crowned Sparrow, Gambel's 18

American Goldfinch 1

Open daily, weather permitting, through June 2, EXCEPT for May 13, 14, and 30. It is almost always better to visit early in the morning. We are opening nets at 6:30, and most days will have birds back at the station by 7:15. There are school groups
every weekday, arriving about 9:45. We aim to close by noon most days, earlier if it is very hot, very cold, or very windy.

Meredith McBurney
Bander/Biologist
Bird Conservancy of the Rockies