Sutton Bonington, Sunday 16 December

Alex, Duncan, Mick T, Gary and I held another session at the feeders on a still and sunny morning to start with but the cloud and breeze increased later. Fairly quiet but we did try again in the field with the two shelf nets and an mp3 playing and managed to get another Linnet and Meadow Pipit.

We ended with a catch of 33 including 15 retraps, made up of (new/retrap): Redwing 4/0, Blackbird 1/0, Robin 2/2, Meadow Pipit 1/0, Coal Tit 0/2, Blue Tit 1/8, Great Tit 1/0, Linnet 1/0, Chaffinch 2/0, Greenfinch 2/1, House Sparrow 2/0, Yellowhammer 1/2. The oldest retraps were two Robins from 2016.

Kev

 Coal Tits (male left, female right), K. Hemsley