After too many days of strong winds, rain or both we spotted a brief window at the start of the day that would allow us to get out and put a few nets up. We know that the forecasts have tended to vary from each other a lot lately, so we hoped that our notification to the park would not need to be cancelled for a second time.
We had a slight delay, getting held up in the staff car park by a team from Pinewood Studios that were there for filming, then made out way to the area where we have usually ringed in the past. We only put four nets up and quickly began to catch.
The first two rounds provided decent numbers of birds and we continued with continually clearing nets and ringing birds as there were a couple of brief showers. By 9:30am capture numbers were reducing and we packed up with 60 new birds and a control Lesser Redpoll.
Leading species was Goldcrest, followed by Lesser Redpoll with a few tits and a Chaffinch. We are often unable to ring Chaffinches in this area as many have infected legs, but this individual showed no sign of the infection.
Totals: 60 (1)
Robin - 2
Goldcrest - 27
Long-tailed Tit - 2
Blue Tit - 10
Coal Tit - 1
Great Tit - 1
Chaffinch - 1
Lesser Redpoll - 16 (and 1 control)
We had a slight delay, getting held up in the staff car park by a team from Pinewood Studios that were there for filming, then made out way to the area where we have usually ringed in the past. We only put four nets up and quickly began to catch.
The first two rounds provided decent numbers of birds and we continued with continually clearing nets and ringing birds as there were a couple of brief showers. By 9:30am capture numbers were reducing and we packed up with 60 new birds and a control Lesser Redpoll.
Leading species was Goldcrest, followed by Lesser Redpoll with a few tits and a Chaffinch. We are often unable to ring Chaffinches in this area as many have infected legs, but this individual showed no sign of the infection.
S270083, 4M control Lesser Redpoll
Goldcrest
3F Chaffinch
Totals: 60 (1)
Robin - 2
Goldcrest - 27
Long-tailed Tit - 2
Blue Tit - 10
Coal Tit - 1
Great Tit - 1
Chaffinch - 1
Lesser Redpoll - 16 (and 1 control)