We had our first session at the Quarry for the year on Thursday morning. With 20 birds caught it was very similar to the equivalent summer sessions over the last couple of years when we caught 19. There was a smaller number of banders this year but still sufficient to handle the bird numbers.
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| Most of the Team, L to R Jan our main helper-outer. Sandra our Scribe, and banders Eleanor and Andrew. |
There were 6 species caught with 16 new and 4 recaps. As is usual at this time of year House Sparrows dominated and Silvereyes were absent in contrast to the Winter months. There appears to be a big drop in Chaffinch numbers, from being well represented a couple of years ago to being absent or near absent.
Species caught were - (recaps in brackets)
Dunnock - 1 (0)
Greenfinch - 0 (1)
Yellowhammer - 1 (0) The last bird caught as we were taking nets down.
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| Ririka, our Japanese student photographing the Yellowhammer |
House Sparrow - 13 (2) about half were newly fledged juveniles.
Song Thrush - 0 (1) We have only banded 20 S Thrushes at the Quarry and this was only our 2nd recapture and is our oldest.
Fantail - 1 (0) A newly fledged bird enticed into a net by our Fantail whisperer, Andrew but he failed with its sibling.
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