Ringing again

I took the morning off work today to go ringing with JF this morning. We had a steady morning catching 34 new birds and 3 retraps, nothing startling among the 12 different species. The long-tailed tit flock has increased in size since Sunday, to about 20 birds, we caught another 6 of them today and 11 more of the goldfinch flock.

There were a few birds on the move this morning, including two year ticks! A spotshank flew over heading SW calling and a single (lesser) redpoll flew south, taking the year list to 152. Also over were five....yes FIVE grey wags, 2 whooper swans, 41 pink feet, 21 greylag, 4 siskin and 9 skylark.

The National Trust vols were burning the shit left behind by the gypo's.

Ringing totals

goldcrest 5 + 1 retrap

chaffinch 1

chiffchaff 2

goldfinch 11 + 1 retrap

greenfinch 1

robin 1

blue tit 1

great tit 1

coal tit 2

song thrush 2

wren 1

long-tailed tit 6 + 1 retrap

151 spotted redshank

152 lesser redpoll