Wednesday, May 11, 2005

Ringing: Ferry Meadows CP


A day off work enabled me to join Chris at Ferry Meadows this morning for CES visit #2. Though it wasn't quite as productive as visit #1, there was plenty of interest.

The Sedge Warbler pictured above was a control. That means it was ringed by someone else at another site. We don't know where yet but the BTO will pass on details to Chris.






Dunnocks are seriously under-rated birds.


Male Whitethroat

We also caught last week's Jay again! Its bill was bloodstained - a reminder that it's not acorns that Jays are eating at this time of year... A female Reed Bunting we caught had rather unusual head markings - lots of black and could easily have been mistaken in the field for a male, but she had a whopping great brood patch.

Strangely for May, there was a significant air and ground frost when we started this morning. Couldn't resist a few macro shots between net rounds...







And closer in:

Quite jewel-like, I think.

photos taken with Nikon Coolpix 995

5 comments:

  1. Great pictures mate! I smell a photographer.

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  2. very good picture!! How can you make those birds stay in your hand? Very cute birds!!

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  3. very, very nice pictures of the birds.(",)

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  4. Wow. Your photographs are amazing. I had often examined a random blade of grass, but that picture of the jewel-like piece of grass offered a whole new perspective.

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  5. Your pictures are awesome! Keep up the good work homie-g dawg!!! holla!

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