On Thursday we had another session at the Quarry amongst the cherry trees in the Japanese Garden. This is the same site we were at last week which is not always a good idea as there is usually a drop in numbers in the second week. But as most of the fruit is now consumed we thought we would try.
We had a group of school children come and have their lunch near us and they showed a lot of interest in what we were doing.
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| Ruud doing what he likes best, Entertaining & Educating kids |
It was a reasonably successful morning with 24 birds of 6 species processed, 20 were new with 4 recaps.
Species caught were -
Blackbird - 3 (1) a big drop from last week indicating that Blackbirds might not be as stupid as we think.
House Sparrow - 10 (2) a bit of an increase probably due to some wheat being scattered around in the previous few day, One of the recaps was banded Oct 2018, so a reasonable age.
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| Our first juvenile Sparrow for this spring/summer. |
Greenfinch - 3 (0)
Silvereye - 2 (1) the recap was banded last week.
Song Thrush - 1 (0)
Dunnock - 1 (0)
Fantail - 1 (0) this was colour banded by Laura as part of one of her studies.
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| The Fantail getting its bling |
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| The fantail with its bling plus a little royal purple |
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