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Monday, 8 April 2013

Sunday 7th April

Carola and I put up a 30ft net at the nyger feeders (GN3a) between 9:20am and 12:20pm and had a busy catch of 38 new + (7) re-traps, including:
lesre 33 (6)
siski 4 (1)
chiff 1
This is a new day max of Lesre at the lake; the previous was 32 in 2004.
I collapsed the net for half hour at 11:00 to give me chance to process the birds I had (it was a bit cold so didn't want birds in the net too long).
One of the Redpolls, presumably captive born, had a blue unbroken ring with the numbers 222 10A 11B inscribed.
The sunflower feeders were empty on arrival, so topped these and the nyger up before leaving.




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  1. PRJ8 April 2013 at 11:43

    Great catch Gareth!!! Got to be worth a go again next week!!! Cracking numbers of Lesser Redpoll. That's around the day max we've had!!!

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  2. Gareth Lang9 April 2013 at 09:42

    If anyone is interested in the captive bird ring number format, Alan Lowe suggested the "222" is the ring number, the "10A" is the ring size, and the "11B" the year (2011), making this bird EURING age code 6 (more specifically age code 7!)

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