After a rather disappointing visit last weekend we carried out our third visit, officially CES visit 2 on Sunday and had a much better catch. We were joined by Ben who had come along on a taster session and Paul who is one of the college staff and a lapsed C-permit holder.
The repaired feeder wires seem to be holding the extra weight of the enlarged feeders. The feed (particularly fat balls and peanuts) had obviously been popular with the birds over the last week. Decent weather conditions prevailed and thankfully the recent storm had removed many leaves from the trees that had been falling and filling the nets the week before.
We set the standard feeder nets plus some in the sports fields. We played Redwing calls and caught a few and also tried Woodcock calls as two had flown close by the previous week as we were setting up, but none were seen this week!
There were plenty of birds around generally and Redwing and Fieldfare numbers have picked up over the last couple of weeks.
We ended on 52 birds with 25 from the feeder nets, mostly tits. We had 13 different species and 4 birds recaptured from last winter's ringing effort. The catch comprised: Wren 1, Blue Tit 25, Great Tit 10, Coal Tit 1, Long-tailed Tit 1, Treecreeper 1, Robin 1, Greenfinch 2, Bullfinch 1, Dunnock 1, Song Thrush 1, Redwing 6, Blackbird 1.
Kev
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