Last Wednesday eve, saw one member venture up onto Canford heath in the hope of trapping some more Nightjars before their fast approaching departure. This turned out to be highly productive with three caught, with all being birds of the year and proving at least some breeding success on Canford, with the suggestion that the season has been a good one.
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| Nightjar - Age 3 |
Two others members went to the delightful site of Fleets Lane Corner (NOT), though this is proving to be quite a interesting site with the migration corridor here being quite unexpected, though study of the surrounding landscape does shed some light as to why this site is so productive and the ringing here also shows the value of such green corridors.
This morning did not prove to be buzzing, though with just two of us present we scaled down activities. There was a nice spread of species caught though, 11 in total, this consisting of 7 species of Warbler, Willow Warbler being the most common.
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| Willow Warbler - Age 3 Showing the strong yellow on the face and breast of a young bird. |
There was much to look at, with a few adult birds in full moult and young birds in post juvenile moult, such as the Blackcap below, which shows the brown cap of a juvenile being moulted and revealing the bird is going to be a male, since the new feathers coming through are clearly black in colour.
The morning finshed with a non-migrant being ringed and this one was always going to inflict a little pain, since they live their lives giving out stick.....it was a Magpie.
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| Magpie - Age 3 Aged as a 3 due to the extent of black on the tips of P1 & P2, though the bird had an overall juv appearance, being dull and tatty as it was going through its post juvenile body moult. |
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