I put up 2 nets again at the stream this afternoon and soon realised my mistake and had to furl one so that I could cope with the number of birds being caught. In just a couple of hours I caught 53 birds, and with 5 species there was a little bit of variation.
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Birds waiting to be processed - all Redpoll except for a Goldfinch at the far end |
Greenfinch - 3
Goldfinch -
Silvereye - 1
Tui - 1 a newly fledged male
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The newly fledged Tui |
The rest were Redpoll with 43 new and a couple of recaps, both the recaps had been banded in the last week.
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Most of the Redpolls were juveniles but there were a few older birds including this cracking male. |
I am away for the next week so am unlikely to be doing another post for a while.