This weekend we carried out our sixth visit for this season’s winter CES, or eighth visit including non-CES visits. A very cold start with snow cover and clear skies.The college was still closed and we had a little difficulty gaining access to the site because the barriers were unusually down, probably a precaution because of the very icy roads and car park. The feeder nets were very quiet all morning but a Redwing call playing at the sports field nets pulled on a surprising 39 Redwing. Unusually they caught all morning despite the nets being lit up by the full sun from dawn and even more obvious against the white snow. The weights of the Redwing ranged from 52.7g to 80.6g. A surprising number of Robins were also caught, 11, no doubt attracted to the bait in the cold conditions. We caught 71 birds in total throughout the morning, of these 19 were retraps. Other observations from the morning included Nuthatch and Tawny Owl calling, Raven and Buzzard.
Kev
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