More ringing!

Friday - a shortish session to familiarise a ranger, who is seeking a "Bat" licence, with mist nets.
Tally was - 4 Blackcap (2m,2f - one was a control, our 2nd this week), 3 Garden Warbler (2f, 1m), new f . LTT, 1 new & 1 old (2005) Wren, 1 Blue Tit . One of the Blackcaps must have well grown young in the nest (from its brood patch).

Birds over incl. Swift, 2 Oyks, pr Bullfinch, 2 Lesser W/throats, 2 ordinary W/throats, 1 Willow, several Blackbirds. A Turtle Dove sang almost continuously from 07:30 'til 09:30 (good views). Yesterday and the day before a Green Wood on the spit.
Thursday was the day for Garden Warblers in song! And I put up a pair of Stock Doves from the large Ash trees by the concrete bridge. Where have all those Coots come from?

Hey ho! Nest boxes tomorrow; I know some have got young in. I suspect the boxes that the Green Wood was using as a sound box are empty. Surprise, surprise.

Here is a list of the number of individual birds handled so far this year in the park:
Woodpigeon 2, Kingfisher 2, Gt. Spotted Woodpecker 4, Wren 16, Dunnock 15, Robin 6, Blackbird 13, Song Thrush 4, Reed Warbler 9, Garden Warbler 6, Blackcap 14, Chiffchaff 6, Long-tailed Tit 22, Blue Tit 38, Great Tit 57, Magpie 1, Chaffinch 8, Greenfinch 6 Goldfinch 3, Bullfinch 7, Reed Bunting 3. Total 242 of which 83 were ringed in 2007 or earlier.