RMBO Banding at Chico Basin Ranch, El Paso Co.

[Nancy Gobris]

This is the final week of fall migration banding at Chico Basin Ranch.   Totals and species for Monday through Wednesday follow.   Tuesday was quite slow, but we did capture our second-only Western Scrub-Jay for the station.  The first was banded here in Fall 2002.  Last day of banding is Friday.

 

Mon. Sep. 29 - Total: 30

 

Red-shafted Flicker – 2

Hammond’s Flycatcher – 1

Red-breasted Nuthatch – 1

Ruby-crowned Kinglet – 1

Hermit Thrush – 1

Orange-crowned Warbler – 1

Wilson’s Warbler – 10

Yellow-breasted Chat – 1

Chipping Sparrow – 5

Gambel’s White-crowned Sparrow – 5

Lincoln’s Sparrow – 1

 

Tue. Sep. 30 – Total: 13

 

Western Scrub-Jay – 1

Ruby-crowned Kinglet – 2

Hermit Thrush – 1

Wilson’s Warbler – 4

Western Tanager – 1

Chipping Sparrow – 2

Gambel’s White-crowned Sparrow – 2

 

Wed. Oct. 1 – Total: 60

 

House Wren – 1

Ruby-crowned Kinglet – 9

Swainson’s Thrush – 1

Hermit Thrush – 10

Gray Catbird – 2

Orange-crowned Warbler – 5

Wilson’s Warbler – 14

Myrtle Warbler - 1

Chipping Sparrow – 3

Gambel’s White-crowned Sparrow - 4

Lincoln’s Sparrow – 3

Oregon Junco – 3

Pink-sided Junco – 3

Gray-headed Junco – 1

 

Nancy Gobris and Diane Luck

Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory

 

[Nancy Gobris]

It was a quiet finish to the fall banding season at Chico Basin Ranch, with slow days both Thursday and Friday.  We finished the season just shy of 1000 birds, with 994 of 51 species banded. 

 

Many thanks to volunteers Diane Luck, Lynne Miller, Ren Gobris, Anna Joy Lehmicke, Katie Merewether, and Lee Farese.  Thanks also to our education team of Lee Derr and Juliana Frost, and to CBR staff for all their hard work clearing vegetation in the net lanes, and for their gracious hospitality, as always.

 

Thurs. Oct. 2 – Total: 17

 

Ruby-crowned Kinglet – 1

Hermit Thrush – 6

Orange-crowned Warbler – 1

Wilson’s Warbler – 1

Oregon Junco – 1

Pink-sided Junco -2

White-throated Sparrow – 1

Chipping Sparrow – 1

Gambel’s White-crowned Sparrow – 3

 

Fri. Oct. 3 – Total: 23

 

Warbling Vireo – 1

Ruby-crowned Kinglet – 1

Amercan Robin – 4

Hermit Thrush – 3

Townsend’s Warbler – 1

Wilson’s Warbler – 1

Chipping Sparrow – 2

Gambel’s White-crowned Sparrow – 9

Oregon Junco – 1

 

Nancy Gobris

Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory