Bird Conservancy of the Rockies - Chatfield Banding Report, 5/5/22

[Meredith McBurney]

Yellow-rumped Warblers!  37 of them; 20 in the first run; of which a dozen were caught in net 12 as they headed for a Box Elder.  Plus a Marsh Wren, a rarity for this station.  And two other first of season.  All in all, a really good day, with 48 new birds:

House Wren 1

Marsh Wren 1

Swainson's Thrush 1 (FOS)

American Robin 1

Yellow-rumped Warbler, Audubon's 21

Yellow-rumped Warbler, Myrtle 13

Yellow-rumped Warbler, intergrade 3

Yellow-breasted Chat 1 (FOS)

Spotted Towhee 1 return, banded 2021

Green-tailed Towhee 2

White-crowned Sparrow, Gambel's 2

White-crowned Sparrow, Mountain 1

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Meredith McBurney
Bander, Chatfield Station

Bird Conservancy of the Rockies