A round up of our bird ringing activities (all birds ringed under licence from the British Trust for Ornithology with schedule one authority where appropriate), birding trips and other wildlife sorties within the UK and whenever we get chance, elsewhere.
Thursday 3 May 2012
Langley Park - 1 May 2012
We had an end of work outing to Langley Park with Mike Beatley with the aim of trying to catch a few of the resident breeding Jackdaws. Not the easiest of birds to catch, hence the zero catch apart from a single Jay that was daft enough to stray into the net and show Mike it's total disdain, leaving him bleeding. I had half thought of doing a RAS on them, but suspected getting 50 adults might be difficult, and going on today's catch we'd be there every day for a month and probably still struggle to get anywhere near 50! I suspect it would only be viable using nest boxes to maintain a decent quantity of adults. May try a couple of more times, but need a little better results than tonight to do it too often, not even a Blue Tit to keep you busy.