Paul has continued putting in the hours at BPF feeding station--and a strange thing is happening--very few birds are there in the morning ( when we usually expect there to be lots)--but when we visit in the afternoon there are good numbers of Gold, Green and Chaffinches on the feeders?????
The weather has been too windy for much success but this coming week looks like it could be better so lets hope for better results. He did catch this Robin a few days ago....
Familiar but smart nonetheless. When he extracted the bird from the net Paul could see it was carrying a ring--not that surprising given the number he rings there. But on closer examination he found that he first ringed the bird as an adult back on 6th November 2019.--so it's at least 5 years old. Not quite a record breaker, but it's doing very well.
Team members are catching a small number of birds in gardens, and Jenni had this absolutely stonking male Starling in a friend's garden........
From previous pictures you can clearly see it's a male because of the blue base to it's beak. I've put the word out for someone to catch and photograph a female so you can see the difference--fingers crossed.
Liz is out at Powell Towers aka Siskin City today so I hope they will have lots of good birds to report; and on Wednesday we have a follow-up visit to ring any Grey Heron chicks that were too smal at our last visit. I will report on baoth soon.
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