Thursday 31 January 2019

Halswell Quarry Thu 31 Jan - pretty quiet

We had a session at the Quarry this morning with limited success of a total of 19 birds, all new. The bulk of the catch was House Sparrows with 11 the next was Fantail with 4, all juveniles. Andrew claims the credit for 3 of these with calling them into a net the other went in on its own. This is the highest daily total of Fantail. Two juvenile Yellowhammers and 1 each of Silvereye and Chaffinch made up the rest.
The tally was probably affected by the warm temperatures as after a steady start numbers dropped off rapidly as it warmed up.

One of the Yellowhammers getting its bling.

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