Bird Conservancy Banding Report - Barr Lake Station, 10/15/17

[Meredith...@birdconservancy.org]

Final day of 2017 banding season started late because of COLD weather.  While waiting for the sun to warm things up, we busied ourselves taking down nets that were already partly in the water - the lake is filling up fast.  Highlight of the day was a spectacular Flicker Intergrade - lovely yellow on tail and underside of wings, but with a red-shafted head pattern.  Relatively few birds banded:

Northern Flicker Intergrade 1

Orange-crowned Warbler 2

Song Sparrow 2

White-crowned Sparrow, Gambel's 6

Dark-eyed Junco, Slate-colored 1

Dark-eyed Junco, Oregon 2

A low season in terms of number of birds, but an interesting variety and more rare/unusual birds than usual.  A more complete report coming soon.......

Meredith McBurney

Bander, Barr Lake Station

Bird Conservancy of the Rockies