We've had a great year as a group and we decided that as a fitting end we would organise a bit of a celebratory session at one of our special farm sites. On Tuesday 8 team members gathered at 18.00 along with aour good friend Paul from the Shropshire RG.
Essentially we had four teams of thermal imagers and divided the whole farm up in order tocarry out a full survey of the farm and try to ring as many birds as possible.
The result was a little disappointing in terms of the number of birds ringed--although the quality was excellent:- 9 Skylark; 4 Woodcock, 2 Jack Snipe, 2 Grey Partridge, 2 Fieldfare and 1 Stock Dove.
In truth if we had caught these birds 4 or 5 years ago we would have been ecstatic, but it serves to illustrate how expectations have increased due to the success of thermal imaging.
What was much more successful--and useful in conservation terms for the farmer was the fielf by field analysis of the number and species of birds we saw. There will have been some double counting in the figures below, but even so, the totals are impressive:-
81 Skylark; 56 Grey Partridge; 34 Woodcock; 29 Common Snipe; 6 Jack Snipe; 5 Stock Dove; 2 Redwing and 69 Fieldfare !!!
Here are a few pics of the species we ringed:-
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