County bird ringing

Hello

A little more bird ringing in the county recently included Dave Francis monitoring some nets at Pitsford Reservoir yesterday and processing some fifty-seven birds made up of twenty Blue Tits, nine Great Tits, five Blackcaps, two Chiffchaffs, two Goldcrests, four Dunnocks, three Robins, a Wren, a Song Thrush, two Redwings, a Meadow Pipit, a Tree Sparrow, a Greenfinch, four Reed Buntings and a Sparrowhawk.

A small team trialed a new net rig at Greens Norton yesterday too and caught and processed thirteen Redwings. The rig permitted two nets to be used on poles with an opportunity to raise the top net to a much higher level.

A week-long Naturetrek tour to Islay and Jura has just concluded and a separate tab/page has been created on this blog with some images from the trip - Islay Jura October 2023.

Regards

Neil M

Hedgehog courtesy
of Tony Stanford.

Redwing courtesy of Chris Payne.