Tony and the other members of the ringing group had another session at Morton Bagot on Friday. Their figures were as follows:
Great Spotted Woodpecker 4 (2 retraps)
Blue Tit 24 (10 retraps)
Great Tit 3 (2 retraps)
Long-tailed Tit 7
Robin 1
Dunnock 3
Greenfinch 1
Lesser Redpoll 7
Goldfinch 13 (3 retraps)
Its good to see a few Lesser Redpolls getting themselves trapped, it may lead to a clearer idea of just how many are using the area.
They also mentioned that one of the Great Tit retraps was a bird which had the pox when it had been caught last year, but was now showing no symptoms. So the can recover.
This morning they trapped in Bannams Wood, but this is largely outside my patch boundary so I will only say that all the retraps they caught had been ringed at Morton Bagot.
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