Bird Conservancy of the Rockies - Barr Banding Report, 9/3/22

[Meredith McBurney]

Yellows and Wilson's competed for top spot today, with the YEWAs winding down and the WIWAs still getting going.  Star of the show was a hatch year Red-eyed Vireo.  

It was great to have Megan Miller, well known Denver area birder who started volunteering at the Chatfield Station when she was about 12, out banding with us the past couple of days, preparing to go to the Western Slope where she will be running our banding stations there (Ridgway, then Grand Junction) for the next 6 weeks starting Monday.  Look for her to join Julie and me with her banding reports!

Okay, the breakdown for today's 32 new birds:

Mourning Dove 1

Western Wood-pewee 2

Hammond's Flycatcher 1

Red-eyed Vireo 1 FOS

House Wren 2

Yellow Warbler 11

Townsend's Warbler 2

American Redstart 1

Wilson's Warbler 9

Clay-colored Sparrow 1

Lincoln's Sparrow 1 FOS

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Meredith McBurney
Bander, Barr Lake Station
Bird Conservancy of the Rockies