The final winter CES visit was made to Broomfield today, although it will not be the final ringing visit to the site this winter. As usual the weather forecast was wrong and we arrived on site in rain and with more of a breeze than forecast, but fortunately the rain stopped by the time we had set the first nets.
We set the usual feeder nets and the Redwing nets, but were not expecting to catch any Redwing as they do not respond well to calls from sound lures late in the winter. There were however good numbers of Redwing and Starling feeding on one of the sports fields along with a couple of Mistle Thrush.
The feeder nets caught the bulk of the day's catch which totalled 43, comprising: 12 Blue Tit, 3 Great Tit, 16 Long-tailed Tit, 3 Robin, 5 Chaffinch, 3 Blackbird and a surprise single Redwing. We also caught a single Bullfinch but we released it without a ring because it had scaly legs.
The breeze increased as the morning progressed so all in all a good catch considering the conditions. Overhead we had Buzzard, Sparrowhawk and a decent flock of Lapwing.
Kev
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