Another damp, low-ceiling, breezy day, at Clear Spring Ranch, and another day of overwhelming numbers of Spizella sparrows.
Yesterday was just too much, so I planned to not even open some of the nets that are directly in the "line-of-fire" of the feeding sparrows.
So, of course, they were piled into the willows while I was opening nets, and flying in like machine-gun fire, even when some nets were partially opened.
Still overwhelming! But if I had opened the other nets, I think I would have caught well over 200 sparrows today. 140 birds today. So much for "taking it easy"!
As it was…
Chipping Sparrows - 97
Clay-colored Sparrows - 25
Brewer's Sparrow - 1
Lincoln's Sparrows - 2
Lark Sparrows - 5
Orange-crowned Warbler - 1
Yellow Warbler - 3
Wilson's Warbler - 5
Warbling Vireo (juv) - 1
Again, not so much diversity, just lots of sparrows!
Have a birdy day,
Steve Brown
Colo Spgs
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