Bird Conservancy Banding Station at Barr, 10-2-15

[meredith]

A nice cool morning with a great mix of species!  Two new species for the season, both of which are unusual captures for the station: We started the day with a lovely (and very feisty) young male Rose-breasted Grosbeak.  We also had a young Nashville Warbler, who had managed to survive what looked to have been a severe (but completely healed) injury to the back of her head.  Total of 40 new birds:

Downy Woodpecker 1

Black-capped Chickadee 2

Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1

Hermit Thrush 5

Gray Catbird 1

Orange-crowned Warbler 8

Nashville Warbler 1

Yellow-rumped Warbler, Myrtle 1

Yellow-rumped Warbler, Audubon's 4

Common Yellowthroat 1

Wilson's Warbler 2

Spotted Towhee 2

Song Sparrow 5

Lincoln's Sparrow 1

Dark-eyed Junco, Oregon 3

Dark-eyed Junco, Pink-sided 1

Rose-breasted Grosbeak 1

We have just a little over a week to go for this banding season....our last day will be Sunday, October 11. We will be open every day until then EXCEPT Thursday, 10/8.  We are opening nets about 6:45, and running until noon or whenever it gets too hot or too
windy or too whatever. School groups arrive about 9:30 a.m. most weekdays.
 
Meredith McBurney
Biologist/Bander
Barr Lake Banding Station

Bird Conservancy of the Rockies