The first birds caught were two new female Bullfinch which as a species seem to have done very well this year and brings us to just shy of 90 for the year! This was followed by a decent amount of Goldfinch, Greenfinch, Redpoll and especially Chaffinch. One of the adult Redpoll was very interestingly coloured with the forehead being a golden colour rather than the regular red (above).
The greatest surprise was the number of C rings we used today (ten in total) including a new Great Spotted Woodpecker (along with three retraps), two Fieldfare at dusk (first for this site) and the highlight of the day and a new bird for any of the sites a Mistle Thrush (above) which had seemingly been gorging on berries.
A House Sparrow (above) was also a great turn up for the books being only the third ringed at this site and there were a few notable retraps. These were two Marsh Tit which was a parent (below) and juvenile caught together in the summer (parent originally ringed in 2008) and two Treecreeper.
Also a bit of time was put into reading gull rings on the ice, but although at least eight colour rings were seen, and many metal rings, a combination of the bright light and the huge amount of birds resulted in only one ring being fully read. This was a Herring Gull ringed in Gloucestershire with a dark blue ring and orange lettering, although another ring which was black and white was half read and is almost certainly from France. If only it had been cloudy!!!Birds ringed:
Bullfinch - 2
Robin - 5
Goldfinch - 3
Chaffinch - 9
Dunnock - 1
Redpoll - 5
Coal Tit - 1
Long-tailed Tit - 13
Greenfinch - 3
House Sparrow - 1
Blackbird - 6
Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1
Mistle Thrush - 1
Fieldfare - 2
Song Thrush - 2
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