Spring variety adds to the evening....

Swallow to Sand Martin...

Hirundines have arrived and our first evening session with a 60 foot net and a couple of two shelf nets at Mallard pond did not disappoint! This adult male Swallow was the first of the Spring to be ringed during a misty evening. Closely followed by our first Sand Martin of 2015.

Cetti's Warbler and Reed Bunting..
added a local flavour to the nets. A new Cetti's is always a bonus as most of the local population are ringed, and a new male Reed Bunting helps our RAS (Retrapping adults for survival) project nicely too.

Pied and White Wagtails...
Very few White Wagtails have been seen so far, so lovely to start "our wagtail Spring" with one of each this evening..There is something special about our passage White Wagtails - a recovery from Iceland fuels this research...

On Sunday, a training session focusing on net erection, also produced four new Chiffchaff, and plenty of retraps to add to the mix.