Chatfield Banding Station: Week 3 Report

[Audrey Hicks]

Last week started out very, very slow but our busy (for Chatfield) Saturday made up for those slow days. We ended the week with 72 new birds of 17 species banded, 10 same-season recaptures, and 3 returns from previous seasons.

New birds:

Black-capped Chickadee 2

Brewer's Sparrow (FOS) 2

Chipping Sparrow (FOS) 1

Common Yellowthroat (FOS) 1

Gray Catbird 3

Gambel's White-Crowned Sparrow (FOS) 1

House Finch 2

Lincoln's Sparrow 3

MaGillivray's Warbler 1

Northern House Wren 2

Orange-crowned Warbler 1

Song Sparrow 1

Spotted Towhee 3

White-breasted Nuthatch 1

Wilson's Warbler 44

Yellow-breasted Chat 3

Yellow Warbler 1

If you'd like to visit the station, you can register through Denver Audubon’s website.

Audrey Hicks

Bander, Denver Auduon + Bird Conservancy of the Rockies