Sunday 21 July 2019

Queenstown Sunday 21 July - good numbers but not much variety.

I had nets up again today in the same site as Friday and although I caught 51 birds there was very little variety - only 2 species. There were 28 new and 23 recaps.
House Sparrows 23 new and only3 recaps. One of the recaps was banded in Dec 2015 and is now the oldest H Sparrow recaptured.
Silvereye 5 new and 20 recaptures of the recaps 12 had been banded on Friday. With 12 of the 21 recaptured it would appear that the local birds are not moving very far and a high persentage have been banded.
I hope to put nets up on the other side of the property later in the week and see how it compares.

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