A frosty morning and we're trying for Redpolls at the moor. These little birds are very responsive to tape, and there are a lot around this winter, so we put up two doubles in different locations with just one other 9m near where we were based. We had heard them around the reserve, so opted for fewer nets as the tits are now banded into large roving flocks and we really would rather avoid getting too many of those.
As it happened, we didn't do very well for Redpolls only getting a total of 7. We did, however, connect with a large tit flock, accounting for many of the 76 birds that we processed. There were 12 species in all, 3 Cetti's Warblers and a Kingfisher were of note.
Total: 57 (19)
Blackbird - 4
Blue Tit - 19 (11)
Cetti's Warbler - 3
Dunnock - 1
Goldcrest - 1
Great Tit - 6
Kingfisher - 1
Lesser Redpoll - 6
Long-tailed Tit - 11 (6)
Mealy Redpoll - 1
Robin - 1
Wren - 3 (2)