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.
Sunday 27 February 2011
Sunbury Cross - 27 Feb 2011
A group of us returned to Sunbury Cross but the Waxwing numbers had dropped during the week to about 50 and today we could only find 20 birds. Any successful catching was looking unlikely as the birds were not coming down in sufficient numbers, but we were at least successful with one being caught using a mobile net which we managed to move into an area where they came into fed and managed a catch of one as it came off the berries! With numbers low and any further catches thought to be unlike or very low we decided to finish early.