A quieter day but not without a good number of birds and the usual highlights that always seem to make the ringing day.
On the personnel front.. Today we were vsited by the lovely Kate (seen below chatting to a young Redstart)
Kate has been instrumental along with Tormud in facilitating so much for us and we welcomed the opportunity to welcome her to the ringing site and saying thank-you personally.
In fact we were lucky to have all three of our hosts on site at the same time Anders Kate and Tormud (from left to right). It was lucky that you cannot see Anders legs as he had just gone for a very muddy and smelly paddle to extract some birds and was standing barefoot.
The bird highlight of the day was undoubtedly the juvenile Temminks
Stint caught, our first for the week. The only problem was that its
mother hadn't told it about good posture and so it slouched sulkily for
the photo.
There is plenty of activity around the site and today we
caught our first adult Ringed Plover of the week although I think we
ought to have a caption competition for what the adult is saying to the
juvenile ....
"I dont want to worry you dear but I think these people are foreign"
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| Red-necked Phalarope |
There are even birds we haven't yet persuaded to join the fun, but we are watching them! even when they are having a bit of a bath
The Totals for today for the mathematically minded are
|
14-Aug |
| Greenfinch |
6 |
| Brambling |
11 |
| Common Redpoll |
36 |
| Great Tit |
2 |
| Reed Bunting |
1 |
| Bluethroat |
9 |
| Meadow Pipit |
4 |
| White Wagtail |
4 |
| Redstart |
1 |
| Willow Warbler |
28 |
| Redwing |
1 |
| Dunlin |
13 |
| Ringed Plover |
8 |
| Temminck's Stint |
1 |
|
|
| Species Count |
13 |
| Total |
125 |
Plover - "What strange people are these, they do not appear to have beards"
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