[cobirds] Re: Magnolia Warbler, CSR , El Paso Co, Thursday

I just want to agree with Diane that your posts and your banding have been great to read about. Candice and Tim Johnson

On Thursday, May 28, 2026 at 2:13:04 PM UTC-6 Steven Brown wrote:

Hey COBirders,

I, too, tried banding in the drizzle Wednesday at Clear Spring Ranch - hoping for some sort of fallout, but it remained pretty quiet - and only 12 birds were  banded.

Today the site was sloppy wet, but there were more birds, both migrants and local nesters.

Highlight was a SY M Magnolia Warbler - my second this season. Very petite, very cute.

Also larger birds were banded today - for a total of 26 today - my best day this week. 750 for the season.

Including:

Blue Grosbeak, 4 (2 Ad M, 1 SY M, 1 Ad F) - BLGR’s just arrived this week.

W Tanager, Ad F

Bullock’s Oriole - Ad M

Swainson’s Thrush, Ad

Black-headed Grosbeak, Ad F

Brown Thrasher - SY (second year)

Lazuli Bunting, Ad F

Western Wood Pewee, 2 Ad, along with two yesterday - they just arrived Tuesday!

MacGillivray’s Warbler 2, SY F’s

and 3 Yellow Warblers, 1 Ad M, 2 SY F’s.

Friday is my last day at CSR banding…. really. It is getting to be too much for my aged knees, so I am letting it go.

Many thanks to those who shared supportive messages over the last 15 seasons. It has been way too much fun.

Last I looked I had banded about 33,000 birds at Clear Spring Ranch since 2012.  Lotsa Chipping Sparrows!!!

Thanks, and Happy Migration!

Steve Brown

Colo Spgs

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[cobirds] Re: Myers Gulch Tour coming up Saturday

My spelling is bad:  it's Meyer's Gulch \ Walker Ranch Trail. (Thanks Paula).     Note:  this is filling up pretty fast.  Will need responses to individual email, before 8 p.m.  Friday.  

Happy birding, 

John T 

On Thursday, May 28, 2026 at 3:50:32 PM UTC-6 John Tumasonis wrote:

All:

        Another free birding and nature tour coming up this Saturday May 30th, at Myers Gulch County Open Space, west of Boulder.  

We will hike a portion of the Myers Gulch Trail to see foothills birds and identify edible, medicinal, and poisonous plants and wildflowers.  Expect to see green tailed towhees, vesper sparrows, bluebirds, violet green swallows, raptors, ravens, tanagers, and other mountain birds, as well as butterflies and pollinators. This area is "mammal rich" with coyotes, mule deer, fox, pocket gophers, and the occasional moose and black bear.  

Limit to 12 people.  Do NOT respond to this group email.  Rather - response to me directly if you want to be on this tour.   I will respond with times and meeting place, and what to expect.  

Thanks, 

John T (Tumasonis)  

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Re: [cobirds] Magnolia Warbler, CSR , El Paso Co, Thursday

Hi All & Steve Brown,

I have thoroughly enjoyed reading Steve’s banding reports through the years. Many thanks for your conservation efforts for our feathered friends. 

Diane Roberts

Highlands Ranch 

Sent from my iPhone

On May 28, 2026, at 2:13 PM, Steven Brown <sbrown37@gmail.com> wrote:

 Hey COBirders,

I, too, tried banding in the drizzle Wednesday at Clear Spring Ranch - hoping for some sort of fallout, but it remained pretty quiet - and only 12 birds were  banded.

Today the site was sloppy wet, but there were more birds, both migrants and local nesters.

Highlight was a SY M Magnolia Warbler - my second this season. Very petite, very cute.

Also larger birds were banded today - for a total of 26 today - my best day this week. 750 for the season.

Including:

Blue Grosbeak, 4 (2 Ad M, 1 SY M, 1 Ad F) - BLGR’s just arrived this week.

W Tanager, Ad F

Bullock’s Oriole - Ad M

Swainson’s Thrush, Ad

Black-headed Grosbeak, Ad F

Brown Thrasher - SY (second year)

Lazuli Bunting, Ad F

Western Wood Pewee, 2 Ad, along with two yesterday - they just arrived Tuesday!

MacGillivray’s Warbler 2, SY F’s

and 3 Yellow Warblers, 1 Ad M, 2 SY F’s.

Friday is my last day at CSR banding…. really. It is getting to be too much for my aged knees, so I am letting it go.

Many thanks to those who shared supportive messages over the last 15 seasons. It has been way too much fun.

Last I looked I had banded about 33,000 birds at Clear Spring Ranch since 2012.  Lotsa Chipping Sparrows!!!

Thanks, and Happy Migration!

Steve Brown

Colo Spgs

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[cobirds] Chatfield Banding Station, Bird Conservancy of the Rockies 5-28-26

We were busy early on, while it was cloudy and cool.  But once the sun came out things slowed way down.  20 new birds and 5 returns:

Western Wood-pewee 2
Dusky Flycatcher 1
White-breasted Nuthatch 1, banded 2024
Northern House Wren 1, banded 2024
Gray Catbird 5 new, 2 returns, 1 banded 2025, 1 banded 2021
Yellow Warbler 7 
Wilson's Warbler 1
Spotted Towhee 1, banded 2025
White-crowned Sparrow, Mountain 1
Lazuli Bunting 1
Lesser Goldfinch 1
American Goldfinch 1

Just three more days this spring!

Meredith McBurney
Bander, Bird Conservancy of the Rockies

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[cobirds] Myers Gulch Tour coming up Saturday

All:

        Another free birding and nature tour coming up this Saturday May 30th, at Myers Gulch County Open Space, west of Boulder.  

We will hike a portion of the Myers Gulch Trail to see foothills birds and identify edible, medicinal, and poisonous plants and wildflowers.  Expect to see green tailed towhees, vesper sparrows, bluebirds, violet green swallows, raptors, ravens, tanagers, and other mountain birds, as well as butterflies and pollinators. This area is "mammal rich" with coyotes, mule deer, fox, pocket gophers, and the occasional moose and black bear.  

Limit to 12 people.  Do NOT respond to this group email.  Rather - response to me directly if you want to be on this tour.   I will respond with times and meeting place, and what to expect.  

Thanks, 

John T (Tumasonis)  

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[cobirds] Prosaic sightings (Broad-tailed Hummer & Common Nighthawk) - Arapahoe

In my west Centennial yard, male Broad-tailed Hummingbirds have been trilling about, particularly in the early evening, dusky light, around several blooming penstemons (Penstemon eatonii & P. clutei) and just-now-starting-to-bloom Salvia greggii and Scrophularia macrantha ("Red Birds in a Tree"). The lateness of their visits, which extend well past sunset, has surprised me a little. It's fun to watch them around plants, which they seem to much prefer to the feeders in my backyard. 

On Tuesday (5/26), I had my first Common Nighthawk sighting. Right on schedule, but it was the nature of the sighting that surprised me: a silent and low bird, barely over the tree line, flew over my home near the end of dusk. Given its low flight, it seemed to emerge out of the neighborhood. More typical at this time of year are the higher migratory flights,  with calls, usually a little earlier in the evening. 

- Jared Del Rosso

Centennial, CO

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[cobirds] Magnolia Warbler, CSR , El Paso Co, Thursday

Hey COBirders,

I, too, tried banding in the drizzle Wednesday at Clear Spring Ranch - hoping for some sort of fallout, but it remained pretty quiet - and only 12 birds were  banded.

Today the site was sloppy wet, but there were more birds, both migrants and local nesters.

Highlight was a SY M Magnolia Warbler - my second this season. Very petite, very cute.

Also larger birds were banded today - for a total of 26 today - my best day this week. 750 for the season.

Including:

Blue Grosbeak, 4 (2 Ad M, 1 SY M, 1 Ad F) - BLGR’s just arrived this week.

W Tanager, Ad F

Bullock’s Oriole - Ad M

Swainson’s Thrush, Ad

Black-headed Grosbeak, Ad F

Brown Thrasher - SY (second year)

Lazuli Bunting, Ad F

Western Wood Pewee, 2 Ad, along with two yesterday - they just arrived Tuesday!

MacGillivray’s Warbler 2, SY F’s

and 3 Yellow Warblers, 1 Ad M, 2 SY F’s.

Friday is my last day at CSR banding…. really. It is getting to be too much for my aged knees, so I am letting it go.

Many thanks to those who shared supportive messages over the last 15 seasons. It has been way too much fun.

Last I looked I had banded about 33,000 birds at Clear Spring Ranch since 2012.  Lotsa Chipping Sparrows!!!

Thanks, and Happy Migration!

Steve Brown

Colo Spgs