The team all met before 05:30hrs. Willie, Alan, Calum, Chris, Pip, Sarah, Helen. The usual 7 nets totalling 340ft were erected pretty swiftly with a larger team present than usual.
50 birds captured on Visit 1 helped lift our spirits with a great start to the season. However, all subsequent visits after this produced far less with Visit 4 being our worst catch so far with only 11 birds caught, we thought 50 was going to prove difficult to beat, that was until Visit 7 arrived.
Did we beat our previous best this season? We sure did, we now have a new record for 2016, wait for it! 51 is now the target to beat! This also smashes visit 7 from 2015 by 25, fingers crossed we have a successful run with our next 5 visits.
| Species | Total | Retraps |
| Blackbird |
1
|
|
| Blackcap |
6
|
|
| Blue Tit |
5
|
|
| Chiffchaff |
10
|
3
|
| Dunnock |
6
|
1
|
| Great Tit |
8
|
3
|
| Robin |
2
|
1
|
| Treecreeper |
2
|
1
|
| Whitethroat |
2
|
|
| Willow Warbler |
1
|
|
| Wren |
8
|
1
|
| 11 Species |
51
|
10
|
The team having a lengthy discussion about how we could top our best catch this season. Then again it might have been a more important discussion, whether to have an apple turnover or a chocolate chip cookie with coffee in between rounds.
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