Under the Guidance of Anita and Phil a new banding site has been created at the Styx Living Laboratory Trust field Centre at 75 Lower Styx Road. Anita as well as being the Regional Rep of Canterbury Birds NZ is the manager of this Field Centre. Phil is a Ranger with the CH-Ch City Council and as a L3 bander/trainer for Passerines is able to train trainees in the dark arts of the process. The hope is that enough suitable people can be trained to enable transfer of suitable species into relevant habitat in the city.
A couple of trial sessions have been held and now with some improvements in net site selection and pre feeding this site is proving to be a good one.
A total of 36 birds were caught, 35 new banded and 1 banded bird recaptured. The species caught were 1 Song Thrush, 1 Dunnock, 2 Chaffinch, 3 Greenfinch, 12 Silvereyes plus a recap and 16 House Sparrows. There were also a number of other species seen near the nets including, Bellbird, Grey Warbler, Fantail, Blackbird and a Shining Cuckoo was heard but unfortunately not by me so I can't tick off my first for the year.
I have attached a few photos of the day's activities Taken by Anita.
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