Monday, 24 September 2012

[cobirds] RMBO Banding Station Report, 9/24/12

This was the weirdest morning of the season:  Started cloudy but not cold, then wind and drizzles (opened, closed, then reopened all nets), then just overcast eventually becoming partly sunny.  Only banded 20 birds, but those 20 included a Tennessee Warbler (2nd of season) and a BAY-BREASTED WARBLER side-by-side in the net.  The BBWA appears to be a first ever for the Barr Banding Station.  We spent a lot of time making sure about the species, but luckily for us this HY bird had sufficient chestnut/rufous on his flanks to rule out other options.  Later, we caught our FOS (and first since 2009) Golden-crowned Kinglet.  We ended with 15 species:

 

Downy Woodpecker      1

Blue Jay                1

Black-capped Chickadee               1

Golden-crowned Kinglet              1

Hermit Thrush   2

Orange-crowned Warbler            2 (For those who noticed – and corrected – my error yesterday, today I think I got the “something-crowned” birds right!)

Tennessee Warbler        1

Bay-breasted Warbler   1

Wilson’s Warbler              2

Green-tailed Towhee    1

Song Sparrow    1

Lincoln’s Sparrow             2

Gambel’s White-crowned Sparrow          2

Dark-eyed Junco, Oregon            1

House Sparrow 1 (We had this brief interlude with NO birds and school kids arriving, so we opened the nets at the Nature Center long enough to catch this guy)

 

Closed Wednesday this week; otherwise open daily, weather permitting.  Some possibility of rain coming up……but maybe more interesting species as well!

 

Meredith McBurney

Biologist/Bander

Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory

303-329-8091

 

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