Barn Owling.

Out with Dave Edwards this morning, checking a few Barn Owl farms in Greater Manchester.

2 Barn Owl chicks ringed, along with 4 Kestrel chicks. A few photos below.

More Mipits & a suprise!

Up and out early this morning - meeting Steve at one of our new ringing sites. We set the nets up and put the Meadow Pipit call on and within minutes birds started to appear. A total of 21 Meadow Pipits caught (25 newly ringed this week) + a Kestrel that managed to place it's self in one of our mist nets!!


Thanks to Steve for an enjoyable morning.

More Tree Sparrow

I've been working at WWT Martin Mere today, so took a few hours out and helped warden Steve Birch monitor around 70 Tree Sparrow boxes. Although the majority of boxes contained Tree Sparrow nests, most of the young had fledged - either that or the nests contained eggs of 2nd clutches. Some nest boxes did contain young and 38 were ringed.

We also checked a Barn Owl box that contained 3 Kestrel young and a Stock Dove nest box that had hatching eggs.