I haven't been out ringing since the end of March, what with one thing or another, so it was really nice to get out this morning for a few hours. I went out with 2 other members of the
Sorby Breck Ringing Group, to the farm site in Coal Aston, and we managed to ring 14 birds of 6 species. Numbrs were as follows (new/retrap):
Great-spotted Woodpecker (1/0),
Nuthatch (2/0),
House Sparrow (1/0),
Dunnock (2/0),
Blue Tit (7/0) and
Coal Tit (1/0). Here's a picture of the male
House Sparrow from this morning.
House Sparrow
Whilst on site, we also put up a new owl nest box, and checked the 5 tit nest boxes. 2 were empty, but 3 contained the beginnings of nests, all of which looked like tits. The details of these nests wll be recorded for the
BTO's Nest Record Scheme.
Beginnings of nest
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