Kennedys Bush Rd Thursday 29 July - Ruud's place

A small group had a session in Ruud's garden Thursday morning. This is about 100m from Jan's garden where we have banded over 500 birds in the last 18 months. The session was a good steady one with 79 birds of 5 species processed. There were 74 new and 5 recaptures with the recap rate being much lower than I had expected.

As expected Silvereyes dominated the catch with 54 new and 3 recaps. Two of the recaps were banded at Jan's 13 months ago with the other one banded down in the Quarry near the duck pond one month ago. This poses the question of where the 450 we have banded at Jan's have gone?

House Sparrows  with 16 new and 2 recaps were the next highest species, both recaps were banded at Jan's. Other species were 2 Dunnocks 1 Starling and a Blackbird, all new.

Ruud proved to be an extremely good coffee maker and we were treated to a very good brew, thanks Ruud. We also had the comfort of deck chairs when not busy. 

Today's team Jan, Ruud & Kate.