Such is the enthusiasm of team members that even when the weather has been pretty wretched with rain and strong winds--they have been ready to exploit breaks and as a result, we have had some pretty decent catches.
Paul and Roy managed 11 Swallows at BP farm on Wednesday.
Gareth ringed another 34 new birds at his new quarry site, including these two beauties today..
This is a juvenile Common Whitethroat--the brown edges to many of the wing feathers and the greyish brown head ID it as a Whitethroat.
This next bird is much underrated, because of it's very sober plumage....
It's a Garden Warbler, rather a chunky warbler with a subtle hint of buff under the wing, plain grey brown upperparts, white underneath and grey legs. I love em!
Two sessions at Belvide this week returned 99 new birds and some interesting recoveries of local birds. We though you might like these two pics of the same species.....
This is a head shot of a juvenile Reed Warbler. Two features to look at are the sloping forehead merging into a relatively long narrow beak. A juvenile feature is that the iris of the eye is only slightly lighter than the black pupil. This contrasts with an adult Reed Warbler below.....
First look how the iris is much lighter than the pupil in an adult bird. To be honest, this individual bird took us aback a little by the rather extreme length of its beak, a bit of natural variation.
Migration will be starting in earnest very soon--who knows what will turn up in our nets.
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