On what was forecast to be a 'relatively' windless morning for the area, Heather Coats and I set out the usual line of nets along the hedgerow. We then added an additional line of three - metre high, two shelf nets - at the edge of the crop margin where I had noticed on a previous visit, that many birds were foraging in the stubble that had remained following the harvest.
Soon after dawn large flocks of finches began milling over the field in addition to a peregrine falcon and a kestrel that cruised just above the hedgerow scattering the finches in all directions including the nets.
The two-shelf nets proved their worth producing a large proportion of the overall total for the morning.
Willow Warbler
Yellowhammer
By 11:15 the wind began to rise bringing the session to an early end but not before we had captured seventy-two birds with only two re-traps which by chance were the final two birds ringed at the previous visit ten days earlier.
Ty’n-y-Caeau 26.09.2015
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Species
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New
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Re-traps
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Total
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Dunnock
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2
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2
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Willow Warbler
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1
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1
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Blue Tit
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1
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1
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Great Tit
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1
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1
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Greenfinch
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5
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5
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Goldfinch
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46
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1
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47
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Linnet
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13
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13
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Yellowhammer
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2
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2
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8 72
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