Our sibling group up in the north of the county ran a ringing course last week for 4 days from Thursday to Sunday. By all accounts it was a great success with good weather and good catches. On the last day of the course Brack was one of the venues and three participants, Carol, Chris & Mike, came along to get experience of ringing farmland birds. We had planned to put up 17 nets, but a combination of the weather and manpower meant we only managed 11. However, despite this we managed a respectable 57 birds, and Yellowhammers made up two-fifths of the catch. Yet again most of the tits were caught away from the feeders in the Orwin's nets. The total catch was (new/retrap): Dunnock 1/0, Wren 1/0, Robin 0/1, Marsh Tit 0/1, Great Tit 5/5, Blue Tit 4/3, Long-tailed Tit 2/6, Chaffinch 2/1, Reed Bunting 2/0, Yellowhammer 16/7. We also had time to colour-ring several of the Yellowhammers, another new experience for come course members.
Jim
The NNRG course managed c750 birds, including c60 Wigeon & c30 Teal. I helped set the nets for the latter, but was not present for the Teal alas.
ReplyDeleteA very good effort indeed and good to dodge the weather!
ReplyDeleteIt was uncanny how the rain stopped every time we wanted to open the nets.
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