Brackenhurst, Monday 6 February

Jim and myself set out on a very cold morning with Rebecca coming along to watch. Despite the feeders being empty and lots of squirrels hanging around, the morning started off very busily with a good number of birds. Then suddenly things dropped off around 10am, and as we were freezing cold (note the icicles on Jim's Landy!) we packed up.

We caught 41 birds of 7 species as follows (new/retrap): Dunnock 1/2, Robin 2/7, Blackbird 3/0, Blue Tit 2/1, Great Tit 3/5, Chaffinch 1/2, Yellowhammer 8/4.

The oldest retrap was a Robin ringed in January 2013 and we also caught both Blue and Great Tits ringed in November 2014. This was also the last ringing outing for Jim's beloved Landy - it has been on many adventures, and involved in countless scrapes, but we all loved it! Hopefully the new one will be just as useful.

Louise

 all photos by Jim Lennon