Alice, Maria, Mick T, Gary and I risked it with the forecast
again today but luckily the early rain soon stopped and thankfully the breeze
was not as strong as predicted either, on another mild December morning. Very
quiet again with a first round catch of zero but it did pick up as the morning
went on and Yellowhammers are now coming to the feeders. We tried a four shelf
net against the bushes with a sound lure playing to try for a few more of the resident
Linnet flock. A pity that just after we put it up it was lit up by the sun as
the clouds cleared and we caught just one.
We ended
with a catch of 28 including 11 retraps, made up of (new/retrap): Redwing 1/0,
Song Thrush 1/0, Robin 1/1, Blue Tit 2/6, Great Tit 0/3, Linnet 1/0, Chaffinch
2/1, Goldfinch 2/0, Greenfinch 2/0, House Sparrow 1/0, Yellowhammer 4/0. The
oldest retrap was a Robin from 2016.
Kev
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