[cobirds] RMBO Banding at Chico Basin Ranch, El Paso Co.

 

After six days in the teens and twenties, numbers finally picked up today at Chico Basin Ranch, with 45 birds banded.  Highlights included two Rose-breasted Grosbeaks and a female Sharp-shinned Hawk, our third this fall.  Season total is now 634 birds of 50 species. Tallies for the past three days are:

 

Thursday, Sept. 20   Total: 26

 

Red-naped Sapsucker - 1 

Western Wood-Pewee – 1

Least Flycatcher – 2

Red-breasted Nuthatch – 2

Wood Thrush – 1

Hermit Thrush - 4

Brown Thrasher - 2

Audubon's Warbler – 1

Wilson's Warbler – 5

Lincoln's Sparrow – 7

 

 

Friday, Sept. 21   Total: 10

 

Rock Wren - 1

Townsend's Solitaire -1

Wood Thrush -1

Hermit Thrush - 4

Gray Catbird – 1

Oregon Junco - 2

 

Saturday, Sept. 22   Total: 45

 

Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1

Dusky Flycatcher – 1

House Wren - 1

Ruby-crowned Kinglet – 9

Swainson's Thrush - 1

Hermit Thrush - 6

Gray Catbird – 2

Brown Thrasher - 1

Orange-crowned Warbler – 3

MacGillivray's Warbler -1

Common Yellowthroat - 1

Wilson's Warbler – 7

Rose-breasted Grosbeak – 2

Spotted Towhee -1

Chipping Sparrow – 1

White-crowned Sparrow - 1

Song Sparrow – 1

Lincoln's Sparrow - 1

Oregon Junco – 2

 

Nancy Gobris - Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory

Steve Brown - Volunteer Banding Assistant