We had a session at Jan's place on Kennedys Bush Rd on Thursday morning. In contrast to most mornings in this area there were very few birds about and for the first hour or so we caught only a couple even though the conditions appeared good. It wasn't until about 10am that birds started to arrive, firstly in a trickle and then in increasing numbers. By the time we took the nets down about midday there were heaps about.
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| While things were slow Ruud entertained us with a creepy crawly display and Vanessa conducted a Quiz. She claimed that it was guaranteed to bring in birds and it worked. |
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| Our new bag holding contraption - actually a piece of wood bolted to the table with a row of hooks screwed into it. It actually worked. |
In all we processed 58 birds with Silvereyes the dominant species, with 50 new and 4 recaps. Others were 1 new House Sparrow and a recap and a new Greenfinch and Starling. The oldest recap was a Silvereye banded about a year ago and the H Sparrow was banded recently down in the Quarry about 2 km away.
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| The Starling was sexed as a female with a pale eye ring and pink base to its bill. |
