CES Visit 11 13/08/2017

Visit 11 was a little disappointing... only 28 birds caught compared to last year where 42 birds were caught on the same visit.

Although the majority we were catching were still mainly juveniles there was that feeling that a lot of our birds that we had caught on previous sessions were maybe departed. We did catch a Chiffchaff that we had first ringed last year as a juvenile, we discovered that it had now come back as a breeding female to the site where it had been born....always amazing to have these birds return, makes it all worth while for the effort that we all put in!


                       We managed to catch 4 Bullfinch to-day, 3 Juvenile and an adult female.

2 of the 3 juvenile Bullfinch that we had caught on Visit 11

Although we were disappointed with the overall number of birds we caught, we were rewarded with our first Yellowhammer caught during a CES visit and the first caught on our site since winter ringing in November 2013.

Species	Total New	Retraps
Blackcap	1	1
Blue Tit		2
Bullfinch	4
Chiffchaff	2	3
Dunnock	1	1
Great Tit	1
Robin	1	1
Song Thrush	1
Willow Warbler	1
Wren	4	2
Yellowhammer	1
11 Species	17	10