First session at Rodbaston College
We have resumed our ringing contacts with Rodbaston College, where we hope to have a few different types of ringing activity. The main effort will be around a feeding station which is currently attracting very large numbers of Goldfinch, Siskin, Greenfinch and Chaffinch--along with many tits. We had a preliminary attempt last week to get the net site prepared but had our first 'real' try on Friday afternoon from 2pm. As expected, we caught a lot of birds--50 new birds including 16 Goldfinch. We are taking quite a lot of biometric and other data--weights, wing lengths, air temp, wind speed; in order to provide the college and students with materials which some may want to use for various aspects of their studies.
The other area we are very interested in is a small field planted for game cover which is also attracting a lot of birds, Goldfinch, Siskin, Brambling, Tree Sparrow, Yellowhammer--and the findings here could be very inetersting in terms of simple things which farmers can do to support bird populations over the winter months--more about this after we have tried a ringing session.
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