This morning looked like the last settled morning for a while so despite the ribs I set up for Skylarks on the reserve.
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| This mornings ringing site |
An overcast almost windless morning, with just 140ft of net set it was great to find three Skylarks in the net in the first round, on wing length a male and two females, both adult and juvenile Skylarks undergo a complete moult in the summer so at this time of year its considered difficult to age them so they are lumped as BTO code 2.
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| Skylark |
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| Diagnostic hind claw |
The rest of the morning was fairly slow with good numbers of Goldfinch and Linnet flying around as well as at least two Sparrowhawks and a Merlin. Only a few birds were caught until I played the Meadow pipit call on the tape and the birds just flooded in to the area with 10 caught.
A Sparrowhawk got caught in the net but by the time I hobbled over it managed to wriggle free, next time!!!
Three fly over Canada Geese were new for the year.
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