Friday December 31 - The ringers continue to score

 While I have found reasons to stay at home since Christmas, Tony K and the ringers have been keeping the torch alight...well the thermal camera anyway.

To begin with they used it to assist with the trapping of two Jack Snipe at Morton Bagot.

Jack Snipe - per Tony Kelly

Most of their activity was centred on Alne Wood, a few miles south of Morton Bagot. Here, between Christmas and New Year they have caught:

36 (26 retraps) Blue Tits, 5 (3 retraps) Great Tits, 3 Coal Tits, 6 (5 retraps) Long-tailed Tits, 1 Goldcrest, (1 retrap) Treecreeper, (1 retrap) Robin, and two Greenfinches.

They have also sent me a thermal photo of a Mouse sp hiding in a plastic tree cover (presumably sitting on the tree within).

We can see you

I'm not sure whether the shot was taken at Morton Bagot or at Alne Wood, but it certainly shows the potential of the kit.

Anyway, Happy New Year. I'll be tramping around Morton Bagot from the wee smallish hours tomorrow to get 2022 off to a good start.