Bird Conservancy of the Rockies- Ridgway State Park

[Megan Miller]

Hello everyone!

Friday ended our two week season at Ridgway State Park!

We caught some fun birds our second weekend including a Steller's Jay and a Nashville Warbler. We banded 52 birds this week of 24 species. Our final numbers for the season are 109 newly banded birds. 

American Robin- 6
Audubon's Yellow-rumped Warbler- 2
Black-capped Chickadee- 2
Bushtit- 1
Cassin's Vireo- 2
Chipping Sparrow- 1
Common Yellowthroat- 1
Downy Woodpecker- 1
Gray Catbird- 10
Green-tailed Towhee- 5
Hammond's Flycatcher- 1
House Wren- 2
Lincoln's Sparrow- 4
MacGillivray's Warbler- 5
Nashville Warbler- 1
Orange-crowned Warbler- 5
Orchard Oriole- 1
Plumbeous Vireo- 1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet- 1
Red-naped Sapsucker- 2
Song Sparrow- 6
Spotted Towhee- 1
Steller's Jay- 1
Virginia's Warbler- 7
Warbling Vireo- 2
Western Tanager- 8
Willow Flycatcher- 1
Wilson's Warbler- 24
Woodhouse's Scrub-Jay- 2
Yellow Warbler- 3

The station will be open starting Tuesday this week at Connected Lake State Park in Grand Junction through October 14th. 

Megan Miller

Mesa County, Colorado