Home Cottage Farm, Iver Heath - 15 October 2011

Today was our local Apple Day event at one of our ringing sites, Home Cottage Farm, Iver Heath, where again this year we put on a ringing demo. Unfortunately the event runs from 11am until 4pm, so covers usually the quietest period time when ringing. We arrived to set up at 7.30am, and early catches were quite good, but as they day progressed unfortunately as expected birds become fairly scarce. We managed 56 birds throughout the session and despite the low numbers later it was good to see quite a few people really enjoy seeing birds close up, as well as seeing some of the RG members getting a lot of enjoyment showing the birds. Oddly two re-trapped Nutchatches were processed by the same ringers that had previously first rung the birds at the previous years ringing demo.

Nuthatch -2 (though actually a 4)

 Chaffinch - 3 male

 

 Green Woodpecker - 4 female

Totals:

Green Woodpecker - 1 (1)
Wren -1
Goldcrest -8
Blue Tit - 11 (4)
Great Tit - 10 (1)
Coal Tit - 1
Long-tailed Tit - 9
Nuthatch - 1 (4)
Chaffinch - 4