Saturday saw a return to the home patch where we provided the Staffordshire Smallholders Association with a ringing demonstration to back up a talk I gave a few months ago.
We set up at the Belvide feeding station for an hour and a half and caught 30 birds--mostly Blue and Great tits; but we also had Nuthatch, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Coal and Marsh tit. Everyone went home happy.
On Monday evening we re-started our thermal imaging/lamping project on Mike's farm. He came out with us for a couple of hours and was delighted to find how attractive his stubble fields are to Skylarks and Woodcock. Over 80 of the former and 5 of the latter were found on only two fields. We managed to ring 11 Skylarks and one Woodcock. We were a bit rusty with our technique and hope to improve on this catch rate in future--possibly!!
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