![]() It was soon apparent that unlike yesterday there were no other thrushes present. The first net round produced several blackbirds and looked good for catching quite a few thrushes. I got a call from Steve Howard telling me that there was an un-ringed red-flanked bluetail in the big mound!!! Im not sure how I will sleep tonight as I have got everything crossed in the hope it stays and is trapped early tomorrow morning.Īndy and I got to Whitburn Coastal Park early again this morning and got the nets up whilst it was still dark. This turned out to be the worst decision I could have made. Given that there was no sign of the red-flanked bluetail or any other scarcities by mid-afternoon, I decided to leave the site early. Retrap totals included 5 blackbirds and singles of chiffchaff, goldcrest, great tit and wren. ![]() Ringing totals included 13 blackbirds, 12 long tailed tits, 10 blue tits, 7 great tits, 5 chaffinch, 3 lesser redpolls, 2 siskins and blackcaps, plus singles of goldcrest, coal tit, redwing and dunnock. Two yellow browed warblers were observed near to one of the nets however one bounced out and the other flew over the net, very frustrating! Clear skies and a brisk wind meant that many birds probably avoided the nets. Catching was steady all day with the main species trapped being blackbirds and various tits. Once again all the nets were erected before it got light. Ringing totals included 19 long-tailed tits, 7 blue tits, 4 blackbirds, 3 coal tits and blackcaps, 2 great tit, chaffinch and goldfinch, plus singles of treecreeper, great spotted woodpecker, wren and greenfinch.īelow is a picture of the red-flanked bluetail taken yesterday by Steve Howard. A total of 46 birds were trapped and ringed today. ![]() Ringing highlights included the second ringed great spotted woodpecker (juvenile female) and treecreeper for the coastal park. Not many other birds about and the catch consisted of mainly tits and finches. A yellow-browed warbler was heard calling in the big mound throughout the day. As it had spent the day beside three nets and managed not to get trapped I presumed it was the bird that was trapped a few days ago. News soon came through that Flambrough had caught a second red-flanked bluetail so I really wanted to see if ours could well be a second bird too, however the birders finally got a good enough view of it and confirmed it was ringed. The red-flanked bluetail showed on and off during the morning and it was undecided on whether the bird was ringed or not. Retraps included 2 robin and singles of blackcap, blackbird, chiffchaff and the control long-tailed tit. Ringing totals included 31 long-tailed tit, 4 chaffinch, 2 robin and singles of coal tit, dunnock, firecrest, song thrush. This was the first bullfinch ringed at the obs. ![]() A male bullfinch was observed getting out of the net which was gutting but a female was sat in the next net. It certainly was a long tailed tit day with a total of 31 new birds trapped plus a control bird which was ringed elsewhere (EAR502 do you recognise it?). This is only the second firecrest to be ringed at the obs. A few net rounds later we caught the long-tailed tit flock and in with them was a stonking juvenile male firecrest. I was hoping for a pallas's warbler, I had my fingers crossed. During a net round a flock of long-tailed tits flew into the big mound followed by a distictly smaller bird. Ringing started fairly slow with the odd robin and chaffinch being pulled in by the tapes. ![]() We were joined today by Paul House, a ringer from the Chew Valley ringing group. Again it was quite breezy at Whitburn but the two mounds gave some shelter from the wind. ![]()
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