Tuesday 12 July 2016

Sunday 10th July 2016

CES Visit 7 Sunday 10/07/16

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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