Another busy day at Clear Spring Ranch banding - 84 birds netted (although 15 were Redwinged Blackbird females, and 9 were Brown-headed Cowbirds - which I choose not to band, and save my fingers getting chopped up - Icterids have sharp claws that rip skin and nets.)
On a different day I probably would have caught even more, but in the active time when I actually netted most of the birds, the nets were standing out perpendicular in the East wind - and I STILL caught 40 birds! How many bounced off, or saw the moving nets???
Lots of mixed sparrows again, and a few more FOY's showed up as well
Seen - quick glance while driving out - along the entrance road, recently flooded - Lesser Yellowlegs and Cattle Egret (neither do I see often here)
Banded: (SY=Second year, as in hatched in 2021)
FOY Virginia's Warbler (Ad M)
4 Com Yellowthroat males (3 SY, 1 Ad)
FOY Lazuli Bunting (Ad M) - spankin' (photo below)
FOY Vesper Sparrow (2 AD)
35 Chipping Sparrows
FOY Clay-colored Sparrow (3 SY's)
2 Brewer's Sparrows (SY)
Lincoln's Sparrow
Mountain White-crowned Sparrow (ad), (and 1 Gambel's SY)
Lark Sparrow (2 Ad, 1 SY)
2 Spotted Towhee (Ad M, Sy F)
Happy Migration!
Steve Brown
Colo Spgs
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