Wednesday 12 May 2010

Ringing in the east scrub from 6.am-9.am.
Birds ringed - Songthrush 2,Common Whitethroat 2,Nightingale 1,Blackcap 2,Dunnock 1 and Willow Warbler 1.
Retraps - Nightingale (1) ringed 16-04-08,caught again on 14-05-09 and 12-05-10.
L T Tit (2) ringed 28-08-08,caught again on 16-09-08 and 12-05-10.
ringed 16-04-08,caught again on 14-04-09 and 12-05-10
Robin ringed 03-06-09,caught again on 12-05-10.

On the way back to my car I saw a Kingfisher flying down the millstream.

2 comments:

  1. Hi Alan.
    Looks lke you had a busy morning.
    What a good re-trap of the Nightingale of 2 years ago. It is nice to know that they come back to the same area.

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  2. Good news about the Kingfisher - you and Phill have had one in the past few days

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