Halswell Quarry, Thursday 1 October - Some birds but not a lot.

We had a session at the Quarry this morning. After a frost the day was sunny with a stiffening breeze. We had a bit of a problem with dogs on the loose, one went under a net at speed but fortuanately except for a broken trammel line didn't cause much damage. Another was in hot pursuit of a Hare, both went under a net at speed, fortunatly the net was set high and again no great damage was done. Later the sun was on the 2 main nets making them very visable. We ended up with 17 birds processed, 11 new Silvereyes and 1 recap which had been banded at Jan's on Kenerdys Bush Rd about a couple of km's away. The others were all new, 2 Starlings, 2 House Sparrows and a Blackbird. The team today consisted of Ririka, Alice, Kenny and a new trainee Babs.