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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