Banding at Jan's Thursday 23 Sept - A pretty quiet morning.

We had a session at Jan's place on Kennedys Bush Rd this morning. The site is next to the Halswell Quarry although at the opposite end from where we usually band. There was only a trickle of birds with a grand total of only 12 processed. All but 1 bird was new with the recapture banded back in June also at this site. Four species were represented, 5 House Sparrows, 4 Silvereyes plus the recap and 1 each of Dunnock and Song Thrush.

One of the Silvereyes had an unusual lump on its eye, possibly connected to the upper eyelid. Barbara, a member of our group is currently down in Fiordland assisting the capture, banding and fitting of transmitters onto Kaka which are certainly much bigger than anything we catch around here.