Bird Conservancy Banding Report - Chatfield Station, 5/16/16

[meredith...@birdconservancy.org]

We got in a couple of good hours this morning before the rain wiped us out.  Caught 24 new and returned birds, 17 species:

Least Flycatcher 1

House Wren 1

Swainson's Thrush 1

American Robin 1 (FOS)

Gray Catbird 1, banded 2015

Yellow Warbler 3

MacGillivray's Warble 1

Common Yellowthroat 2

Yellow-breasted Chat 1 new, 1 banded 2015

Green-tailed Towhee 1

Clay-colored Sparrow 1

Song Sparrow 1, banded 2014

Lincoln's Sparrow 1

White-crowned Sparrow, Mountain 2

Red-winged Blackbird 2

Bullock's Oriole 2 (1 adult male, 1 second year male, in same net, which is also the net where we caught the pair yesterday)

American Goldfinch 1

Open daily, weather permitting (good possibility we will be rained out tomorrow/Tuesday), through June 2, EXCEPT for May 30. It is almost always better to visit early in the morning. We are opening nets at 6:30, and most days will have birds back at the station by 7:15. There are school groups every weekday, arriving about 9:45. We aim to close by noon most days, earlier if it is very hot, very cold, or very windy.

Meredith McBurney
Bander/Biologist
Bird Conservancy of the Rockies