Saturday 2 October 2010

Ringing at Treveal

We attempted to ring Snipe at Marazion last night but we gave up after a few hours of nothing and hit the pub with some of the local birders, hoping that tomorrow would bring better ringing.
It did...
We arrived at Treveal at about 6:30am and started setting up the nets in a few places around the valley. None of us had been to Treveal before so trying to find decent ringing spots in the dark was hard!
Anyway after about nearly 7 hours of ringing we caught the following (not huge numbers but some good birds!!!) 2 Firecrest, 2 Goldcrest, 4 Great Tit, 3 Blue Tit, 5 Chiff-Chaff, 1Wren, 3 Long-tailed Tit, male Blackcap and a male Blackbird. Also Yellow Wagtail andMerlin over
An interesting Chiff-Chaff was caught too, One of the Chiff-Chaff caught had a ring on, after close inspection Mark had ringed it earlier in the week at Marazion! What are the chances!
and Sam, its lucky I could be bothered to take my camera around this time!!!

Firecrest
Firecrest
Firecrest
Goldcrest

9 comments:

  1. Firecrest - awesome. Good set of images, good day by the sound of it

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  2. Good stuff Ash, images from the 7D next???

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  3. Hopefully I can get out tomorrow. Just shooting around the house with the 17-40 it looks good! It'll probably rain tomorrow tho!

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  4. Well done Ashley, the firecrest is superb.

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  5. Well done Ash,lucky you.
    Must have been a great experience,fab images.
    john.

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  6. Great images Ash some smashing birds there.
    Did I smell 7D there cant wait to see the results.

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  7. Great images Ash, thank you for the good sharing, the firecrest is superb.

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  8. Love the Firecrest pics what an experience :-)
    Jacqui

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  9. Hey great sharing, Love the Firecrest pics..really what an great experience.!!!

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