Bird Conservancy Banding Report - Barr Lake Station, 9/10/16

[meredith...@birdconservancy.org]

These mid-season (although slightly early) days are great.  A huge mix of species - 17 total today if we count new, returns from previous seasons and recaps from this year.  Six new species for the season (see below).  As a Barr Birding Festival visitor commented, it was like Christmas as each new bag was opened.  Here's a breakdown of the 40 new captures today:

Downy Woodpecker 1

Dusky Flycatcher 1

Red-breasted Nuthatch 1 (FOS)

White-breasted Nuthatch 1 (FOS.  I don't remember ever catching both nuthatches on the same day before.)

Rock Wren 1 (FOS)

Ruby-crowned Kinglet 2 (FOS)

Hermit Thrush 2 (FOS)

American Robin 1 return, banded 10/10/15 (FOS)

Orange-crowned Warbler 4

Yellow Warbler 1

Yellow-rumped Warbler, Audubon's 1

Townsend's Warbler 1

Wilson's Warbler 13

Chipping Sparrow 7

Lincoln's Sparrow 3

(Species caught not mentioned above - birds that had been banded earlier this year - were American Redstart and MacGillivray's Warbler.)

We are open 6 days each week, weather permitting, through October 16.We are closed every Monday in September, then October 4 and 12. We are opening nets at about 6:30 a.m. and we start closing between 11 a.m. and 12 noon. We will open later and/or close earlier if it is very hot, very cold, wet, windy, etc. There are school groups most weekday mornings, usually arriving around 9:30. Best times to visit, if you like lots of birds and fewer humans, are early mornings during the week and Sundays.

Meredith McBurney
Bander/Biologist
Barr Lake Banding Station
Bird Conservancy of the Rockies