Today saw the team at the Swindon Lagoons nature reserve for the third of this years Constant Effort Site ringing session.
We arrived on site for 04:30hrs, having set and secured most of the nets on Saturday evening, with clear skies it was already light and the birds were getting into the dawn chorus.
As at the same session last year it was fairly quiet, with 41 new birds ringed another 33 or so "retraps", including a Sedge Warbler which had been ringed by a ringer outside our group.
There were two juvenile Robins ringed they really are stunning birds, the adults we are all familiar with their red breasts but these youngsters are special
It wasn't all birds as we had two moth traps set, quite a collection of commoner species but three Poplar Hawk moths stole the show
The site is pretty good for damselflies and dragonflies, this normally evasive Azure Blue gave itself up easily today, the distinguishing feature of this species is the "U" shaped mark at the top of the abdomen.
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