It was a late night with a early morning i was watching the disapointing start to England ashs tour
with not a lot of sleep I met Paul Veron and Phill at Pauls house at 7.15 am hopefully to catch some Gulls when I got there the trap had already been baited. With some Gulls flying around we sat down with a cup of tea and a chat whilst waiting to see weather the Gulls were going to play ball.  Id only just started my cup of tea and looked out at the trap the trap was already full of Gulls so the tea had to wait we only took one catch but it was well worth it with a total of 126 Herring Gulls    to witch  76 
were first year birds  25 adults the others were either re-traps  or second or third winter birds meny thanks to Paul for aranging  the ringing session

It was great to get out this weekend to do some ringing, With the winds N/E 2/3 we whent up to Jerbourg at 7.00 and put up three 60ft net mists, although there was not much on the ground there was some good visible migration with redwing ,fieldfare and a few skylarks going out to sea and 200+ starlings coming in off the sea it was good to be out after several weeks of wind and rain Colette my partner put out the flags and had a party that I was out from under her feet .We did manage to catch
12 redwing       2 wrens      1 great tit      7 dunnock      1 firecrest       1 black bird       and   1 linnet
fingers crossed the weather improves.