I was out ringing this morning with 3 other members of
Sorby Breck Ring Group at a local farm in Coal Aston. We had a steady morning, with 12 birds of 6 species, including our first ever
Chiffchaff record from this site. Birds ringed were (new/retrap):
Nuthatch 0/2,
Dunnock 1/2,
Blue Tit 1/1,
Great Tit 3/0,
Robin 1/0 and
Chiffchaff 1/0. All the retraps were birds that we had ringed at this site previously.
Whilst there, we had our first check of the nestboxes for 2019, and were very pleasantly surprised to find 6 out of the 7 boxes were occupied (up from 2 last year). 1 box contained a
Nuthatch nest, whilst the other 5 nests were all tit nests (1 with a 1/2 built nest, 1 with 5 eggs, 1 with 10 eggs, 1 with 8 eggs and 1 with 2 eggs). All eggs were cold, so incubation hasn't yet started.
Nuthatch nest
Tit nest, with 10 eggs and lots of horse hair
Details of all the nests recorded, will be sent to the
BTO's Nest Record Scheme.
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