The weather forecast for yesterday was excellant and so the prospect of a good catch was very real - if only there were birds about.
Nets were erected in the early morning mist:
which cleared within twenty minutes:
Mick came back from the first round of the nets and triumphantly thrust a bird bag into my hand - inside an adult male Redstart! We have ringed only 16 at Stanford since we started in 1976 so this was a very good bird and surprisingly the second this year as we ringed an adult female in June.
Adult male Redstart 21st July |
Adult female Redstart 20th June |
The total catch for day was 65 new birds with 20 retraps - our best day so far but well short of what we would normally expect at this time of year.
Warblers predominated with:
Sedge Warbler 2 new (+ 2 retraps)
Reed Warbler 2
Whitethroat 15
Garden Warbler 2 (+1)
Blackcap 3 (+2)
Chiffchaff 4
Willow Warbler 9 (+5)
With good weather predicted for next week, a mid week session is planned.
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