Friday evening saw us at our favourite farm in pretty good conditions. It was nice and dark although the high humidity did affect the performance of our thermal imaging cameras--fortunately not enough to stop the session.
One of our Belvide birder buddies Nige helpfully agreed to come out with me for his first session as my netter. His field skills easily transferred to the task and between us Kev and Jen we caught 10 Skylarks, 5 Fieldfare and one each of Jack Snipe, Blackbird and Redwing.
I've posted pictures of Skylarks previously--but I never tire of seeing these belting birds!
This was a great result for a session which was arranged only that lunchtime. We arranged it because I had decided to postpone a planned overnight session for Common and Jack Snipe at our regular site for these species. The forecast was for gusting winds--which didn't really arrive so I was pretty disappointed this morning and felt a big opportunity had been missed.
So a quick phone call to another Kev ( my good mate Dave's trainee) who jumped at the chance to check out the site with the thermal imager to see if we could find any Jack Snipe--and check on how many Common Snipe we could have possibly caught the night before.....
As things turned out, there were still 40+ Common Snipe, and around 30 Jack Snipe at the site so it's still worth trying if there is decent still weather soon. We had a record-breaking catch of Jack Snipe--with 10 new birds ringed and one retrap from last month.
This gives you an idea of how Jack Snipe use their cryptic colouration to avoid detection--by staying rock still. Image how difficult it would be to spot this bird if the oak leaves were not there and it was hiding against grass stems.
I have posted previously about our on-going Black Headed Gull colour ringing scheme. Over the last two days we have had two further sightings --one of a bird ringed in 2018 and seems to be wandering around not far from the colony. The second was a bird hatched and ringed this year and sighted in Cheshire. The following pictures demonstrate why colour ringing can be very useful. Observers can initially see that a bird has a colour ring with only binoculars:-
If they are keen, a quick look with a telescope can confirm the details on the ring and an email speedily puts observer and ringer in touch
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