Bird Conservancy Banding Report - Barr Lake Station, 9/8/16

[meredith...@birdconservancy.org]

Still a modest number of birds but a more interesting morning!  Started the day with a GREAT CRESTED FLYCATCHER!  A big and beautiful and feisty bird.  The second for the station - the first was caught in 2013 the day after the big storm.  We also had our first White-crowned Sparrows; I thought this was early, but just checked and our first last year was on 9/1. In the breakdown for the day, you will note fewer warbler species and more seed-eaters:

Downy Woodpecker 1

Hammond's Flycatcher 1 (FOS)

Great Crested Flycatcher 1

House Wren 1

Wilson's Warbler 18

Clay-colored Sparrow 2

Brewer's Sparrow 1

White-crowned Sparrow, Gambel's 3 (FOS)

Lazuli Bunting 1

We are open 6 days each week, weather permitting, through October 16. We are closed every Monday in September, then October 4 and 12. We are opening nets at about 6:30 a.m. and we start closing between 11 a.m. and 12 noon.  We will open later and/or close earlier if it is very hot, very cold, wet, windy, etc. There are school groups most weekday mornings, usually arriving around 9:30. Best times to visit, if you like lots of birds and fewer humans, are early mornings during the week and Sundays.

Come visit!

Meredith McBurney
Bander/Biologist
Barr Lake Banding Station
Bird Conservancy of the Rockies