We had a session at the Quarry this morning. The nets were put up at a new site which is several hundred meters from previous sites. Jan suggested this area and although I had some misgivings we gave it a go. We ended up with 24 birds of 6 species processed with 17 new and 5 recaptures. The number of recaptures was a pleasant surprise and it shows the benefit of nets in a new position.
Species caught were - (recaps in brackets)
House Sparrow - 9 (0) the first 5 were Males and then we got a couple of girls.
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| Coralie displaying one of her boys. |
Blackbird - 4 (1) all the new birds were Juveniles but the recap was an old girl, banded in May 2018 it is now at 1260 days from banding our oldest Blackbird.
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| The old Blackbird |
Starling - 1 (0)
Song Thrush - 1 (0)
Dunnock - 1 (1)
Silvereye - 1 (3) one of the recaps was banded Feb 2018 and is at 1373 days from banding our oldest recap of any species.
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| Hazel & Ruud sharing a joke - perhaps about the size of their birds? |
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