Date: 8/10/26 4:20 pm From: 'Meredith McBurney' via Colorado Birds <cobirds...> Subject: [cobirds] A preview of fall banding - Training Days at Barr Lake!
Hi CoBirders,
It is almost time for fall banding! In preparation, we put up a few nets
at the feeders near our Barr Lake office and spent a few hours over 4
mornings doing some training/tune-up with our Barr Lake and Chatfield
volunteers. This was the first time we did this in the fall at our Barr
Lake office location, and we were very pleased with the results, both in
terms of the number of birds caught but also the diversity.
In spite of having the feeders full, the majority of the birds caught were
insect eaters, led by the Yellow Warblers. We should expect YEWAs to be
our most common species at this time of year, but were pleasantly surprised
at how many we caught at this location. Most of them hatched this year,
which is exactly what should happen now. (Hint: If you are interested in
learning about YEWAs, how to tell young from adults, males from females,
etc., visit the station during the first week or so. After that they will
be off to their wintering grounds.)
Most interesting birds caught:
A very young Savannah Sparrow - A species rarely caught at Barr Lake. We
did every measurement Pyle suggested in our quest to properly ID this bird.
An Eastern (based on all measurements) Warbling Vireo - It was interesting
to see our first likely Eastern WV after our spring at Chatfield, where the
7 we caught all appeared to be Western.
Here's the breakdown of the 76 birds we caught:
Downy Woodpecker 2
Western Wood-pewee 6
Eastern Warbling Vireo 1
Blue Jay 1
Barn Swallow 1
Black-capped Chickadee 6
White-breasted Nuthatch 2
Northern House Wren 4
Yellow Warbler 39
Chipping Sparrow 1
Savannah Sparrow 1
Red-winged Blackbird 4
Common Grackle 4
House Finch 4
We will officially open bright and early on Saturday, September 22. We are
thrilled to be returning to our traditional location after two years in a
temporary location due to the construction on the dam. They avoided doing
major damage to the habitat where the station is located, so we are very
much looking forward to being back "home".
Meredith McBurney
Bander
Barr Lake Banding Station
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