Went out to do the next session for the Foraging Farmland Bird Project this morning. Very disappointing. A 6am start, and by 10am I'd caught 4 birds:
Wren (1)
Dunnock 1
Robin (2)
Not a great success. So, I packed up and headed over to Rushgreen Grove, a small wood at the back of the estate here at Wyken where I monitored a few nests back in the summer.
Wren 1
Robin 2
Goldcrest 1
Long-tailed Tit 14
Blue Tit 11
Treecreeper 3
All new birds. The session was spoilt slightly when a roe deer buck walked through the net, completely destroying the bottom shelf - and this a brand new North Ron net! I was livid!
Went off home to bag a few birds there before dusk:
Robin (1)
Marsh Tit 1 (4)
Coal Tit 2 (2)
Blue Tit 1
Great Tit 1 (1)
Totals for the day:
Wren 1 (1)
Dunnock 1
Robin 2 (3)
Goldcrest 1
Long-tailed Tit 14
Marsh Tit 1 (4)
Coal Tit 2 (2)
Blue Tit 12
Great Tit 1 (1)
Treecreeper 3
38 New Birds, 11 Retraps, 49 in total + 1 Roe Deer!
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- Graham
- Canna, Highland, United Kingdom
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Bad luck with the deer - happened to us recently, NR too
ReplyDeleteIt was a bit of a pain! But, my own fault really, for not noticing the fairly obvious deer track running through the scrub! Should be able to make a single shelf net out of the broken bottom shelf anyway - useful for birds in arable cover strips!
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