Garden - 13 to 15 May 2011

To fill in some spare time the usual short 20 has been set up in the garden, not there is much coming in at this time of year, a few Greenfinches using the sunflower hearts and the odd Starling, which is likely to increase once the young are out of the local nests. We have a pair of Blue Tits using the only nest box in the garden that usually avoid coming across the open area, usually sticking to the hegde line along the back of the garden, but on 14th both the male and female were caught, both already ringed, the female being one of our juveniles from last year, ringed on 17/7/10 as a 3J and the male first ringed on 21/9/08 as a 3J. A couple of Woodpigeons have been coming in and out of the garden bearing rings which probably are 100% gauranted to be ours, and on the 15th one was read through a scope having been rung on 20/7/09 as a 4 by us.

Totals (new) for the three days are:
13 - Collared Dove
14 - Starling x 2 and 4 other species re-traps
15 - Starling x 2 (one being the first 3J of the year) and Greenfinch x 2

Starling - adult

Holly Blue - male