Sunday 24 January 2010

Black Day at Eskmeals 23/01/2010

Present KH , AM , JS.

The day stared badly when it was realised that we only had 12 "C" rings and there were Fieldfares all over the site. The finding of the Black Redstart in one of the nets saved the situation. 83 birds were processed and 100+ would have been achieved if we had brought enough "C" rings.
1 Black Redstart, 12 Blackcaps, 7 Blackbirds, 7 Blue Tits, 10 Bullfinches,2 Chaffinches, 2 Coal Tits, 3 Dunnocks, 5 Fieldfares, 4 Goldcrests, 1 Goldfinch, 5 Great Tits, 1 Sparrowhawk, 5 Redwing, 9 Robins, 8 Song Thrushes, 1 Wren.


Black Redstart. Photo: Jack Sheldon

This is what you can enjoy when not busy ringing at Eskmeals

Redwing. Photo: Allan Mackenzie

Redwing. Photo: Allan Mackenzie

Fieldfare. Photo: Allan MacKenzie

Fieldfare. Photo: Allan MacKenzie

4 comments:

Maalie said...

If you ringed 7 Blackbirds and 5 Fieldfares, where did the other 5 C-rings (from the 17 you had) go to? :-)

Anonymous said...

Hello

I see from the pics you have some Sea Buckthorn on your site.

We do well for winter thrushes up here in the Highlands feeding on the buckthorn but only once all the rowans have been eaten.

See comments in attached link -

http://btoringing.blogspot.com/2010/01/ringing-fieldfare.html#comments

We have been ringing this site for 7 years but have received little data back from the hundreds of Fieldfare's ringed.

Cheers

Rob Swann

Anonymous said...

P.S - Forgot to add that I'm interested to hear of other group's catching Fieldfare's this winter so feel free to reply on the link above with any info on numbers, weights etc.

Cheers

Anonymous said...

Rowan is always completely eaten long before winter. We would do better if the buckthorn is finished and there is nothing for them but apples! Unfortunately there is still a good supply of buckthorn..
Other ringing group overhere has no buckthorn around and had 300+ yesterday and 151 fieldfares today on apples.

You won't forget to check your supply of rings next time you go out, I think?

Cheers,
Erik Maassen
Ringing station Van Lennep, The Netherlands.