Aquatic warbler 02/08/2014 |
Ringing in Guernsey started soon after the war and is continuing today in Guernsey there are 6 lisence ringers and 2 trainees Jersey has 2 ringers and 1 trainee with no ringers in Alderny at the present time with the Channel Island ringing scheme covering the whole of the Channel Islands we have 2 colour ringing projects.
Thursday, 7 August 2014
A good couple weeks ringing down the reed bed spending a few hours in the morning before work and a couple of hours of the night most days I have managed to trap and ring 380 new birds mainly all sedge surprise bird was aquatic warbler trapped and rung on the second of August a very early bird to the reed bed as we usually hope to catch these in the middle half of August with what has been rung so far this year it seems like a good breeding year of many species, birds rung so far this month are as 176 Sedge 53 reed 27 willow warbler 115 swallows 1 aquatic warbler 2 blackbirds 1 Wren 1 Robin 2 dunnock 2 black cap
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