[cobirds] RMBO Banding Station Report, CHAT, 5/4/13

I think we caught the last of the “snowstorm” birds today; a little slower than the last 2 days and we were recapturing some that had stuck around.  But, all in all, an interesting day, with lots of human visitors, including Hugh and Urling’s Beginning Birder class and the Front Range Birding Co group led by Chuck Aid.

 

Here’s a breakdown of the 30 new captures today:

 

House Wren       1 (banded in 2009!)

Ruby-crowned Kinglet   2

Swainson’s Thrush          1 (FOS)

Hermit Thrush   3

Orange-crowned Warbler            4

Nashville Warbler            1(Not an easy ID, but Hugh Kingery, Jim Schmoker, and Nicole Buyck were there to help make the determination!)

Yellow-rumped Warbler, Myrtle               5

Yellow-rumped Warbler, Audubon          8

Yellow-rumped Warbler, Hybrid                1 (We had just had a conversation with Chuck Aid’s group about what a Audubon-Myrtle hybrid might look like, and the next bird out of the bag was……a hybrid.  Yellow throat becoming white where the throat wrapped around the back of very dark auriculars.)

Common Yellowthroat  1 (FOS)

Brewer’s Sparrow            1 (FOS)

Lincoln’s Sparrow             1

Dark-eyed Junco, Pinks-sided    1 (Just seems wrong to be banding Juncos and Warblers at the same time!)

 

Looking forward to what tomorrow will bring………

 

Meredith McBurney

Biologist/Bander

Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory

303-329-8091

 

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