Winterton blues

With the fine weather of late and a few early migrants being recorded we thought we would have a change of scenery and give Winterton our first go this year. We arrived bright and early Saturday morning to open the nets, 8 x 60' and 1 x 50' were erected on Friday night.
The morning was cold (6.5 °C) and a light Easterly, however this strengthened through the morning to a moderate Easterly and started to rain steadily from 8.20 am. Luckily due to lack of birds and the weather we had already taken the nets down and missed out on a drenching!

Sharon, The Guvnor and Mr. Fix it with the 'logo bird '

13 new birds and 6 ( retraps ) were processed, with the first Chiffchaffs and Goldcrest of the year being ringed. At least 3 Chiff's were heard singing in the morning.

The ENRG logo !

WREN ; 1 (1 ) One originally ringed 14/09/08

DUNNOCK ; 0 (3)  One ringed 12/09/09 and another 21/04/07

ROBIN; 3

BLACKBIRD ; 1

CHIFFCHAFF ; 2

GOLDCREST ; 1

LONG-TAILED TIT ; 0 (2) One from 19/09/09

CHAFFINCH ; 1

GOLDFINCH ; 4

Male Goldcrest

A Sunday afternoon stroll down Winterton Valley produced 2 Black Redstarts, 2 Goldcrest and a hunting Kestrel.