Filming Interrupts events at Ty'n y Caeau Farm

With the weather at last clearing to enable some ringing in calm overcast conditions Heather, Cedwyn and Chris were able to see what Ty'n y Caeau could offer by way of farmland birds. The nets (3x18m and 2x12m) were set around first light by 7:00am. After the first net round, extracting just a few birds, our concern was raised by what seemed to be a helicopter in trouble just out in the channel. It turned out to be the filming of an episode of Casualty. At lot of noise for what will probably be just a few minutes of film. Back to the birds - we caught a total of 21. While not a lot of birds they were nicely interspersed to allow for thorough evaluation in ageing of some tricky birds (well for me the trainee anyway). A few of the yellowhammers had at least read Svenson and decided to conform. Others had decided on a mixed approach to age related features.

The full list for the morning being:

We did manage this time to take some pictures: