Feeding station and Coot.

Out again with Craig netting at the Shakerley feeding station.

Jay (1), Blue Tit (2), Great Tit (2), Willow Tit (2), Bullfinch (2), Goldfinch (2), Chaffinch (2), Blackbird (1) and Dunnock (1).

Then onto catching more Coot for the colour ringing project - 7 more marked. Also caught and ringed 5 Canada Geese & 1 Mute Swan.

More Tufted Duck.

The weekend started with a 05:30 start on Saturday, which saw Me, Craig & Ciaran meeting Steve at one of our ringing sites in Manchester. We were aiming to catch more Meadow Pipits, but we only caught 2 new ones but the bonus was controlling a bird (a bird ringed by another ringer). We also managed to catch a few Tits, Chaffinch and a Goldcrest.

After packing up, Me and Craig decided we would try to catch some Coot at a local park - however non were catchable - but we did catch 3 Moorhen & 1 Tufted Duck.

This Cormorant was on the Lake, bearing a ring - despite several attempts at reading & photographing the ring we only managed to read part of the ring number - 524809*

Sunday morning we trapped at the new feeding station, catching - 2 Dunnocks, 6 Long Tailed

Tit, 3 Great Tit, 2 Blue Tit and 1 Jay + 1 retrap 1 Willow tit.

With Craig having to be elsewhere in the afternoon, he left Me & Ciaran, and we headed up the M6 to Lake Windermere. 4 Tufted Duck, 2 Mallard, 9 Canada Goose and 1 Black Headed Gull ringed today at Windermere.

All in all - a good week with 80 new birds, 3 retraps & 1 Control.