…on the ringing front.
Initially Saturday was to be the first CES session of the year and Sunday was to see me over at Woolley Firs carrying out a bird box survey with my trainer, as it happens there was a switch in activities and day due to the bad wind and rain on Saturday causing a postponement of the CES until Sunday so we did the bird box survey on Saturday.
Sunday certainly was better than Saturday weather wise but was still rather cold and overcast for the entire session. 9 souls turned out for the rearranged session consisting of 3 trainers and 6 trainee’s. It turned out to be a good day bird wise with an above mean average of 56 new birds and 20 plus re-traps compared with 18/21 from the corresponding session last year, encouraging start for the new net ride configuration.
I was able to process 15 birds along with 15 extractions.
- Bluti (Blue Tit) x 2
- Blaca (Blackcap) x 1
- Chiff (Chiffchaff) x 4
- Dunno (Dunnock) x1
- Lotti (Long-tailed Tit) x1
- Robin x 1
- Sedwa (S edge Warbler) x1
- White (Whitethroat) x 4
It was great to get back into the groove!
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