Last week I met up with an old mucker; Graham, who I hadn't seen to really have a good natter with for a very long time. We quickly got to talking about birds--and our excellent Snipe ringing session reported here last week. He mentioned a nearby site he monitored regularly where he has seen both species of snipe so we decided to get together and see how many we could count using our thermal imager--especially for Jack Snipe.
We met at 9 am with superb conditions--dull--and had a mooch around the site. He was disappointed at the small number of Common Snipe we saw--as we had been last week--but we did see 10 Jack Snipe--more than he has ever seen there before. We also managed to ring two. The thermal imager really does help us break new ground in our ability to find this incredibly elusive species. With more time, effort and imagers around the country we could make a significant input to what we know about the Jack Snipe wintering population and distribution.
There was some time left before we had to be home, so we decided to have a look at my prime site to see if there had been any adverse effect on the number of birds at the site as a result of our netting activity last week. Some people do get worried about this so it's useful to gather data to support or refute this issue.
It was obvious as soon as we entered the site that there was nothing to worry about. Again a disappointing number of Common Snipe were seen ( wonder where they have gone??), but we counted 35 Jack Snipe, 6 of which we ringed.
Regular readers will know that in our last three visits, we have ringed 32 Jack Snipe at this site. To put this into a national context, each year the total number ringed in the whole of Britain and Ireland is only around 2-300.
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