A collaboration with MA and team to get a few more flagged Turnstone for the North Norfolk Turnstones coastal towns project. He had been preparing a beach area with regular feeds for a while now, in a location where Snow Bunting is the usual target. Many thanks to the team for sharing the session. A total of five releases of the whoosh net resulted in 19 new Turnstone captured and marked with a remarkable bycatch that resulted in experience of a new species for CL and DKL with a new species for the site too.
Details to follow in a separate blog post.
Darvic total: 19
Turnstone - 19
On the way home we dropped in at Walcott where the beach was full of walkers, shouting children and dogs off the lead. e did try with the walk trap and some meal worms without any success. No sign of any of the birds freshly marked for the project, but we did find WNf (5KY) confirmed as having been ringed in Canada at Alert on 6th August 2023. This is the same location that flagged JAA at Sheringham was ringed in 2017. There is a pattern here I think.
