Bird Conservancy Banding Report - Barr Lake Station, 10/13/16

[meredith...@birdconservancy.org]

Another very good day for mid-October.  Yellow-rumpeds continue, along with White-crowned Sparrow and Juncos.  The big birds - Flickers, Jays, Red-winged Blackbirds, Magpies - are around and noisy, taunting us from the trees above the nets.  Here's the breakdown of the 44 new birds for the day:

Downy Woodpecker 1

Ruby-crowned Kinglet 3

Hermit Thrush 4

American Robin 1 return, banded 2015

Orange-crowned Warbler 3

Yellow-rumped Warbler, Audubon's 14

Yellow-rumped Warbler, Myrtle 1

Song Sparrow 1

White-crowned Sparrow, Gambel's 10

Dark-eyed Junco, Oregon 1

Dark-eyed Junco, Pink-sided 5

Three more days!  We will take the station down after banding on Sunday.

Meredith McBurney

Biologist/Bander

Barr Lake Station

Bird Conservancy of the Rockies