[cobirds] RMBO Barr Banding Report, 9/21/13

Slow day…….Very few new arrivals.  Continued to feel the move into fall, catching our first White-crowned Sparrows.  Here’s the breakdown:

 

Northern Flicker Intergrade      1 (Beautiful more-yellow-than-orange wings and tail, but red-shafted in most other respects)

Black-capped Chickadee         2 (Both returns, caught side-by-side in the same net,  and both banded on 9/2/11.  Do BCCHs mate for life?! BFFs?!)

House Wren     2

Hermit Thrush   1

Gray Catbird    1

Orange-crowned Warbler         1

Common Yellowthroat  1

Wilson’s Warbler         2

Lincoln’s Sparrow        2

White-crowned Sparrow,Gambel’s       2 (FOS)

 

Open Sunday and Monday, closed Tuesday, then open daily through 10/13 EXCEPT for 10/4 and 10/7.

 

Meredith McBurney

Biologist/Bander

Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory

303/329-8091 (land line)

303/349-0245 (cell)