As part of an on-going project to provide a new farm owner with detailed numbers of birds on his farm, Kev and son Gareth ventured forth last night for the first thermal imaging session of the autumn to count and try to catch Skylarks.
They had a really successful session with 30 birds counted and allocated to specific fields to help analysis of farming practice--and they caught 12 birds to add to the growing number of these birds ringed since the inception of this technique a few years back, using the imager provided by WMBC.
Prior to this I had some net repair work to do and 4 members of the team joined me so we set some nets in the sheltered parts of the Belvide site. A very useful 34 new birds were ringed-again comprising mainly warblers.
ANOTHER wierd weather system is tracking across the country and we have had to postpone tomorrow's planned session. We hope to be able to run it on SUNDAY 23rd. All members of WMBC are welcome
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