Jan's Garden Sunday 8 Sept - a busy morning

A small group gathered at Jan's this morning and although conditions were good with no wind and low cloud it was also a bit marginal with rain threatening. Fortunately except for some light showers it didn't get bad enough to lower the nets.

Today's team, Kenny, Eleanor, our scribe Sandra and our Host Jan. Although the rain didn't get to heavy we took the precaution of moving into a convenient glass house.

We were busy from the start and ended the morning with a record catch of 119 birds. There were 111 new birds and 8 recaps, although there were 6 species represented the majority were Silvereye.

Species caught were (recaps in brackets)
Blackbird - 3 (0)
House Sparrow - 11 (1) the recap had been banded under the old pines in the corner of Findlay's Picnic area on the other side of the Quarry.
Dunnock - 1 (0)
Chaffinch - 2 (1)
Greenfinch - 1 (0)
Silvereye - 93 (6) Two of the recaps had been banded in the Quarry. One in the Australian section in June last year the other originally banded near the main pond and then recaptured in the session a couple of weeks ago near the Stone House. Now it has moved up the road to Jan's garden.

A Google view of the Quarry with the major net sites shown.