An interesting month with many young birds spending their earlier fledged days at the start of the month, supported by parents, in the thick vegetation.
We also noticed that the resident Blackbird pair went on to a second broods really quickly with the male taking on duties with the first brood while the female brooded the second. She then was the adult usually seen with brood two after they fledged. Two rather small young were picked up and ringed, one after getting stuck in the greenhouse and the other when it fell asleep out in the open on our patio.
The feeding station proved particularly popular with youngsters no longer associating with their parents, predominantly Blue Tits, Great Tits and Greenfinch.
Attempts to capture larger birds resulted in 7 Black-headed Gulls ringed, darvic marked and added to the North Norfolk gull project.
Totals: 58 (22)
Black-headed gull - 7
Woodpigeon - 1
Great Spotted Woodpecker - 0 (1)
Robin - 2 (6)
Dunnock - 5 (4)
Blackbird - 5 (6)
Blackcap - 1
Blue Tit - 13 (1)
Great Tit - 7 (2)
Starling - 1
House Sparrow - 9 (2)
Chaffinch - 1
Greenfinch - 6