Wednesday, 17 January 2024

Stanhoe Orchard - 17th January 2024

 Not the frosty morning that we'd hoped for, but it was cold and the ground was very hard. We found a line where the apples were not yet eaten and put up a triple row of thrush nets followed by a double of 19*19 mesh 18ms. We also tried a double in a corner often favoured by the thrushes and a final single where we may get a few finches.

It turned out to be a little on the slow side with quality being the case rather than quantity, but it's always a pleasure to catch Redwing and Fieldfare however few and we even managed a Mistle Thrush.

CVG had joined us and was pleased to ring three species not usually present at her usual ringing sites.


Mistle Thrush aged 5


Fieldfare

Linnet

Green Woodpecker

Redwing

Male Starling

Total: 21 (2)

Robin - 1 (1)
Green Woodpecker - 1
Mistle Thrush - 1
Fieldfare - 4
Redwing - 2
Blue Tit - 1 (1)
Great Tit - 2
Starling - 1
Goldfinch - 1
Chaffinch - 3
Linnet - 1