Five bright eyed bushy tailed ringers dragged themselves out of their sleeping pits as the 3am alarms went, only to find when we arrived at the ringing station that rain stopped play. Back home trying to get a few more Zs, when Ferg announced " it's clearing up". None of us were completely convinced as the demister on Anders car started to overheat....
Things did eventually brighten up and catching went on briskly without ever feeling manic.
We even managed to entertain two school parties - or rather Anders did as we fed him the birds.
At about 2pm we finally gave up as we all felt "ringed out", and desperately in need of food, tea/coffee and a shower in that order of priority.
Eventually Dave did his usual totals trick and announced to a disbelieving audience that we had ringed 414 new birds!
We have decided to celebrate by going out to eat tonight-we'll probably have Arctic Roll.....
Meadow pipit 175
Reed Bunting 40
Brambling 32
Bluethroat 6
Redpoll 85
Arctic redpoll 19
Willow warbler 40
White wagtail 3
Redwing 1
Great tit 1
Greenfinch 1
Garden warbler 1
Dunlin 10
No rarities for a couple of days now so we are sleeping with things crossed..?!
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