We did manage a few bits and pieces, starting at Caister for the Linnets on Good Friday.
We arrived just before sunrise to be greeted with a hard frost, even the sand was frozen and a temperature of -4 ºC!
20 new and 5 retraps, 4 being recent and one from 12/03/2011 were caught.
Saturday morning we were hoping for some migrants at Winterton, unfortunately the day dawned with a cold NW putting a stop to any new arrivals.
Luckily some had already arrived and the first Blackcaps and Chiff's were duly caught, but not much else was going on.
Male Blackcap
Female Blackcap
Ringing consisted of only 16 birds with 13 new and 3 retraps.
Dunnock; 2 (1) originally ringed 04/04/2010
Robin; 1
Blackbird; 2
Blackcap; 2
Chiffchaff; 2 (1) This bird was ringed as a 3 on 10/09/2011, had it been here all winter ?
Goldcrest; 1
Great Tit; 1
Goldfinch; 2
Monty with 'his' Dunnock
Later on in the morning Arthur arrived with his Son and Grandson to explain the ringing, they both seemed at home with the birds and became very interested in them.
Dave explaining to Monty how to measure a Goldfinch wing.
As we took the nets down 3 Adders were seen basking in the sun?! They must have been desperate for a bit of heat.
On arriving home a Chiff was heard calling in the garden so one 40' net was quickly erected, resulting in it being caught with 2 Blackcaps, a nice end to the weekend as the weather deteriorated.
On Tuesday it was back to work, so of course the sun came out and the wind dropped!!! A phone call was received mid morning from Winterton to say a few more corvids had been caught. Luckily for us but not him Tony was at home instead of work as his car had broken down, so he was quickly deployed to go ring them. This resulted in another 27 Jackdaw and 2 Rook being ringed.
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