Today's session started a little late as there were showers about, but we managed to ring a few birds.
Our main objective was to ring the two boxes of kestrel chicks. One has a camera and is close to the Discovery Hut where a large screen is set up for visitors. This box held four chicks (and a failed egg) and the Borrow Pit box held five. They were all ringed. Both boxes are easily accessible as they are on poles and are lowered by winch.
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| The chicks were removed from the nest box after it had been lowered. |
Kestrel Chick
The four 18m mist nets used provided a pretty equal mix of adults and newly fledged birds.
Ringed | Re-trapped | |
Blackcap | 3 | |
Chiffchaff | 2 | |
Dunnock | 1 | 1 |
Goldfinch | 1 | |
Great Tit | 6 | |
Reed Warbler | 7 | 1 (ringed on site as juvenile last August) |
Robin | 2 | |
Wren | 2 | |
24 | 2 |
Peter Bennett
