The morning was spent at Truss Island ringing and fitting darvics to the local Mute Swan population together with MR and MEH, a Spanish ringer currently working in the UK. Fifteen new birds were ringed and given darvics, along with 7 re-traps that were also fitted with darvics.
Totals: 15 (7)
Mute Swan - 15 (7)
Afterwards another visit to Staines Reservoir where the Grey Phalarope was on the north basin, and on the drained southside were four Knot, three Black-tailed Godwit, six Curlew Sandpiper, eight Ruff, two Greenshank, two Common Sandpiper, 77 Ringed Plover, and 46 Dunlin.
Grey Phalarope
Hirundines over the causeway
Drained south basin
