Another 7 new juvenile Chiffchaff were caught today, this now takes our total to 59 Juveniles caught. It'll be interesting to see our totals after our 12th and final visit of the season takes place.
Unknown to us the Midlothian Walking Festival was taken place from Friday 12th - Monday 15th August. One of the walks surprisingly took them around our ringing site, they all seemed very surprised and inquisitive to what we were up to and us with them as we never usually have many folk walking around our site, even though it's a SWT reserve there are very few visitors pass through.
After they had completed there walk around the reserve and before walking on to there next destination time was afforded to watch us processing some of the birds that we had caught, a few didn't recognise one of the birds in particular, as it was still in full juvenile plumage it didn't have it's distinct red breast, they never thought it could be a Robin. After thanking us to for an impromptu ringing demonstration they departed to continue there 5.5 mile walk along part of the Pencaitland Railway walk.
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| An unexpected Bird Ringing demo for Midlothian walking festival participants. |
| Species | Total New | Retraps |
| Blackbird |
1
|
|
| Blackcap |
1
|
1
|
| Bullfinch |
2
|
|
| Chaffinch |
6
|
|
| Chiffchaff |
8
|
4
|
| Dunnock |
2
|
|
| Great Tit |
2
|
2
|
| Robin |
4
|
1
|
| Whitethroat |
1
|
|
| Willow Warbler |
1
|
|
| Wren |
5
|
2
|
| 11 Species |
33
|
9
|
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