November bird ringing
Posted: Monday 14 November, 2011
Peter, from the British Trust for Ornithology (and Barry Mill), was here yesterday doing the last bird ringing of the year. Our sparrow breeding programme has obviously been successful 
as he had to release some birds without recording, because he ran out of bags.
Yesterday's tally was 59 new birds and 7 retrapped ones. Of the 59 new birds, 40 were house sparrows, 7 Great Tits, 3 Blackbirds, 3 Blue Tits, 3 Coal Tits, 1 Wren, 1 Dunnock and, the highlight, a juvenile male Great Spotted Woodpecker. What a handsome chap he was.
Great spotted woodpecker being ringed by Peter
Of the seven retrapped birds, four had been trapped here at Dalmore earlier in the year (a Blue Tit and three House Sparrows), while a Coal Tit, a Longtailed Tit and a Robin, that had all been previously trapped on the golf course made up the balance. All were trapped this year apart from the Coal Tit, which was trapped in July 2009.
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Dan
It's great to see Peter at work here Linda. There's a lot of skill involved in releasing the birds safely from the nets, and in handling them. He caught a Long Tailed Tit that had been previously ringed - I hadn't seen one before and it was also stunning.
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Linda penney
Thursday 17 November, 2011 at 2:00pm
lovely to think how much your doing to help the wild life and to be able to help with ringing must be awsome i feed the birds with feeders and a bird table and have some nest boxes but know one comes to ring the birds i just have to count from seeing them on the bird feeders
from Linda