Another slow week wrapping up here in Grand Junction at Connected Lakes! We were delayed on Thursday due to rain, and didn’t end up catching any birds. But we got a handful this week!
Our totals for the last week of banding are:
Gamble’s White-crowned Sparrow 6
Song Sparrow 2
Spotted Towhee 3
Slate-colored Junco 2
In total over the 4 weeks at Connected lakes we banded 117 birds:
Audubon’s Yellow-rumped Warbler - 1
Black-capped Chickadee - 1
Bewick’s Wren - 5
Bushtit - 38
Cassin’s Vireo - 1
Dusky Flycatcher - 2
Gamble’s White-crowned Sparrow - 28
House Finch - 5
Lincoln’s Sparrow - 1
MacGillivray’s Warbler - 1
Orange-crowned Warbler - 1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 5
Red-shafted Flicker - 1
Slate-colored Junco - 3
Song Sparrow - 2
Spotted Towhee - 11
Western Flycatcher - 1
Wilson’s Warbler - 10
Emily Knaack
Bird Conservancy of the Rockies
Bander, Connected Lakes State Park