[cobirds] RMBO Chatfield Banding Station Report, 5/23/12

This unusual season continues…….Caught more year-round residents than either summer residents or migrants today, including the first 2 Downy Woodpeckers, both males, caught together in the net, both with brood patches.  Don’t know where the girls were!  Also caught a HY Song Sparrow; I don’t remember ever catching a fledgling during spring banding before.  Here’s the break-down:

 

Downy Woodpecker      1 new, 1 return (banded 4/25/10)

Black-capped Chickadee               1 return (banded 5/14/08)

Swainson’s Thrush          1

Gray Catbird       2

Yellow Warbler 2 new, 1 return (banded 5/29/10)

Song Sparrow    2, including HY noted above

Lazuli Bunting    1 (Adult female)

Red-winged Blackbird 1 return (banded 4/21/11)

Brown-headed Cowbird               1

Bullock’s Oriole 1 (FOS, adult female)

American Goldfinch        2

 

Open daily, weather permitting, through Sunday, June 3.

 

Meredith McBurney

Bander, Chatfield Station

Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory