The first few hours of light this morning at Chesworth was dominated by almost perfect ringing conditions of cold, windless and cloudy, but unfortunately also included freezing fog! This made the nets look like a solid wall of white and deterred many birds from going anywhere near them. By 10am Stuart, Jake, Eddie and I had only caught eight new birds, but the fog was finally lifting and the nets were slowly becoming misty again! By the end of the session we had ringed 46 new birds, hugely dominated by Blue Tits and the huge lack of finches which had almost certainly been put off by the frozen nets early on.
The highlight of the day was a new species for the site, but a species that we were surprised not to have caught here before, a Coal Tit(below)!
While the highlight of the retraps was a Redpoll ringed here just 14 days ago which was the first retrap Redpoll we have ever caught (below)!
Birds ringed:
Blue Tit - 40
Dunnock - 1
Great Tit - 2
Coal Tit - 1
Greenfinch - 1
Woodpigeon - 1
While the highlight of the retraps was a Redpoll ringed here just 14 days ago which was the first retrap Redpoll we have ever caught (below)!
Birds ringed:
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