Houghton Valley Stream

First off please forgive me for not posting for a while.  The Wellington group is active but the blog poster (me) keeps forgetting to put the results up on this wonderful forum. 

This is the first time that we've visited the Houghton Valley Stream site in about a year.  This site is very seasonal as it requires a good period of dry weather to be productive.  Luckily Wellington has had quite a bit of the old dry over the last couple of weeks so the stream is getting lots of use as it's the only open water course in the valley.

Ros, Kate (now a level 2), Barbara and myself pulled out 62 birds representing 9 species in the space of 2 and half hours.  It was ring and fling in Peter's grand tradition for a while there.

Species totals are - recaps in brackets:
chaffinches - 6
House sparrow - 6
Green finch - 12(1)
Goldfinch - 4
Dunnock - 1
Silvereye - 29
Starling - 1
Fantail - 3
Grey Warbler - 1

Unfortunately for us we had run out of AX bands so we had to release the Fantail and Warbler without any bling.