Over late summer this year we made several visits to our ringing site at Cantley. It turned out to be particularly good for roosting birds this year, most likely due to the reed bed having much higher water levels compared to recent years. This high water appeared to attract much greater roosts of swallows and wagtails, presumably because it is safer for them, in turn we caught many more birds this year.
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| A fantastic 114 new yellow wagtails were ringed! |
As well as the roosting birds we also caught good numbers of Acros and Beardies as we have come to expect from this fantastic site.
Totals for the sessions are as follow:
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Retraps/ |
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New birds |
Recoveries |
Total |
| Kingfisher |
5 |
0 |
5 |
| Sand Martin |
54 |
1 |
55 |
| Swallow |
1344 |
26 |
1370 |
| Yellow Wagtail |
114 |
7 |
121 |
| Pied/White Wagtail |
1 |
0 |
1 |
| Wren |
7 |
0 |
7 |
| Blackbird |
1 |
0 |
1 |
| Cetti's Warbler |
6 |
0 |
6 |
| Sedge Warbler |
241 |
29 |
270 |
| Reed Warbler |
411 |
46 |
457 |
| Bearded Tit |
35 |
11 |
46 |
| Blue Tit |
4 |
2 |
6 |
| Great Tit |
4 |
0 |
4 |
| Linnet |
4 |
0 |
4 |
| Reed Bunting |
94 |
8 |
102 |
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| Total: |
2325 |
130 |
2455 |
