Friday 31st July 2015
This morning was spectacular, not only was the temperature down to 5'C the moon was full and blue. I joined the team at Oxwich National Nature Reserve, a wonderful place for nature and people and somewhere I spent may days as a child. The ringing site, a mixture of reed bed and scrub produced 160 birds, with over 20 Greenfinches - mostly juveniles a Kingfisher and a breeding couple of Redpoll sp All in all a brilliant morning, and when I managed to take off my woolly hat the sun was wonderful, if a little to bright for continued catching. juvenile Kingfisher Highland cattle, being used for conservation grazing of the marsh Male and Female Redpoll sp Ringing team in action, being supervised by "Ellie" the West Highland Terrier The ringing area (foreground not the hill)