We also caught a few Long-tailed Tits, including a bird first ringed in autumn 2009, so it's now in at least its sixth calendar year (as a minimum). Not bad for a little bird that's been through some hard winters.
Saturday, February 22, 2014
Yellow eyes
We went back to Paxton Pits to do a bit more pruning around our net rides. While we were working in one area of the site, we set a couple of nets in a quieter part. We only caught 10 birds, but this young male Sparrowhawk (hatched last year) was one of them!
We also caught a few Long-tailed Tits, including a bird first ringed in autumn 2009, so it's now in at least its sixth calendar year (as a minimum). Not bad for a little bird that's been through some hard winters.
We also caught a few Long-tailed Tits, including a bird first ringed in autumn 2009, so it's now in at least its sixth calendar year (as a minimum). Not bad for a little bird that's been through some hard winters.
Saturday, February 15, 2014
Sawn off
Time for a bit of brush-cutting, tree-chopping and bush-bashing at Paxton Pits before the start of the 2014 ringing season...
Sunday, February 02, 2014
World Wetlands Day
On World Wetlands Day I was busy doing a bit of preparation on my new [wetland] ringing site. It was a lovely day for it.
Saturday, February 01, 2014
#birdperday: 1. Hoopoe
I've decided to start a thing: tweet a link to a Flickr photo of a different bird species every day. With c10,000 species (and counting), it should be good for the next 27 years or so...
So here's my 1st #birdperday, hurtling magnificently through the air... Hoopoe! http://t.co/TpCpbDiBAp
— Katie (@bogbumper) February 1, 2014
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