Chico Basin Ranch Banding Station Report- Bird Conservancy of the Rockies-5/12/2025

[Chicobander]

We did not manage to band double digits today. :( Species of note was another Northern Waterthrush. Eight bird species banded. Pretty quiet birdwise even before the construction noise started up. 

9 New Birds Banded

MacGillivray's Warbler-2

Northern Waterthrush-1

Northern House Wren-1

Lincoln's Sparrow-1

Lazuli Bunting-1

Swainson's Thrush-1

Gray Catbird-1

Brown Thrasher-1

No Recaptures- The banded White-eyed Vireo is still hanging out singing off and on during the morning.

The banding station will be open this week from sunrise until @11 AM through Saturday.

Please sign up at the Aiken Audubon Website if wanting to bird the ranch. (https://www.aikenaudubon.com) 

Please stop by and share your sightings.

I had another thought about the support that the weather/winds have not been favorable for songbird migration here at Chico. There has been noticeably fewer Miller Moths around this spring than there have been in past three springs. From what I was told and read the moths are pushed north by winds. So if the winds are not favorable for a northern push, wouldn't it be possible that the birds depend on southern winds to carry them north would also be lower? ---Just a thought.

Have a good day,

Julie Shieldcastle

Chico Basin Bird Bander

Bird conservancy of the Rockies