Under Rydon Hill

Welcome to this blog about my time away from the tedium of domestic management. Once called "Tits and Things", now sub-titled "Life in Quantoxia", there's plenty of bird ringing (90%), some odd bits of general birding, some local steam trains, some personal bits and occasional 'away days' in other parts of Britain. Rydon Hill overlooks the lower valley of the Doniford Stream, where most of these activities take place.

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Not much doing

Apart from sallying out to get a few 'early season' Reed Warblers, everything else has come from the garden.
Having 'mended' (a euphomism in reality) a 30' net and put out more food for the blighters, visitors were always quick off the mark. However, as I have to ring on one side or the other, there is plenty of airspace for those that intend to keep their freedom.

It wasn't all bad as I managed over 50 birds of 9 species in 5 mornings. Top was 15 Starlings, all 3J's. Next came House Sparrows with 12, 2 of them new adults and a retrap juv from 2 weeks earlier. Then, in third place, Great Tit with  7 new youngsters and 4 adults that were all in their 2nd CY. Of the 5 Blue Tits, 3 were adults, all new. After that, it's 3 Blackbirds, 3 Greenfinch, 2 Goldfinch and singleton Dunnock (a retrap) and a heavyweight Wood Pigeon.

Many of the "baby" Starlings were extremely noisy and living up to their nick-name of "flying shit"; hands under the tap every time! This one in particular was a so-and-so. And it was well and truly entangled in the net ... and a fidget.
Quiet, at last!
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