Gen, Nick, Graeme and I had a banding session at the school with a number of children joining us for periods of time. We also had Kate come along to assist after school and a surprise visit from Siobain who used to live in the valley before moving to Picton a year ago. She was a very keen member of our banding group.
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| It was Siobain's birthday so Gen presented her with a cake. |
Dave the Caretaker who is one of our liaison people at the School and was the original person who suggested doing banding at the School with the kids was also present and brought along a couple of his friends for the experience.
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| Dave and friends, unfortunately we didn't have bands big enough for them. |
Although we
didn’t catch a lot of birds we still had a successful afternoon's banding. We had very pleasant conditions and it was much dryer underfoot than at the last
session. In all we caught 20 birds of 3 species with 8 new birds and 12
recaptures.
Species
caught were –
Blackbird –
3 new birds.
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| A Blackbird awaiting its release |
Chaffinch –
1 recapture, a bird banded at the Houghton
Bay
Silvereye –
5 new and 11 recaptures. 1 of the recaps was banded 31 May 2010 at our second
session at this site. 2 others were banded at the Houghton Bay
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| The first bird of the day |
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| The second bird about to get its freedom |
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| And its away |
Although
not all the children got to handle a bird they all showed great enthusiasm for
the project with a lot of interesting comments and questions.
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