Sunday 12 July 2009

Bullfinch & Kingfisher

89 birds handled this week - all new birds.

Garden ringing

Blue tit - 1
Great tit - 3
Dunnock - 4
Blackbird - 1
Bullfinch - 2
Goldfinch - 8
Greenfinch - 18

Bullfinch pair feeding in the garden.

Reedbed

Willow Warbler - 1
Reed Warbler - 3
Sedge Warbler - 1
Dunnock - 2
Goldfinch - 2
Reed Bunting - 4
Robin - 2

WWT Martin Mere

Tree Sparrow - 28 pulli

Else where

Collard Dove - 1 ~ a juvy sat on a car roof in one of my local streets!
Kingfisher - 1 ~ ringed on Atherton Farm
Swallow - 9 ~ two broods of 4 and one of 1 ringed at Botany Bay Woods.


This will be the last post from the UK for a while. Tomorrow I'm travelling to Iceland, bird ringing for a month. So check back in a few days time :)

2 comments:

  1. My smaller, southern garden produced a different line-up this week: 1 Greenfinch, 1 Dunnock, 1 Goldfinch, 2 Blackbirds, 2 Chaffinch, 2 Blue Tit & 14 House Sparrows!

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  2. good luck in iceland hope you get some good stuff

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