Several members attended the last ringing session on 19/5/22. Nets were set around the Discovery Hut from where we were able to observe a group of Swifts investigating the Swift boxes and at least two birds were seen to enter. We processed 29 birds. Several juvenile birds were caught including a Robin and Blackbird. The highlight was perhaps a retrap Reed Warbler ringed here as age code 4 in April 2018, and so born in at least 2017, making it 5+ years old.
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| Juvenile Robin |
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| Juvenile Blackbird |
As the session slowed down we took the opportunity to catch and process one of the Mute Swans from the Sand Martin pond - rather a contrast to the dainty warblers we'd just been handling!.
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| Ringing a Mute Swan |
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| Weighing a Mute Swan. |
Ringed | Re-trapped | |
Blackbird | 2 | 2 |
Blue Tit | 1 | 1 |
Cetti’s Warbler | 2 | |
Dunnock | 1 | 1 |
Great Tit | 1 | |
Mallard | 1 | |
Mute Swan | 1 | |
Reed Warbler | 7 | 4 |
Robin | 3 | |
Sedge Warbler | 1 | |
Wren | 1 | |
17 | 12 |
Robin Pearson
