April Showers?

Weather forecast reported Friday would be dry, with a little bit of wind.  It changed and the report was light rain.  What we actually got was really heavy rain showers which included hail and possibly snow, unless our eyes were deceiving us!  When the showers appeared, the bird ringers checked the nets continuously and where there were many birds there were many bird ringers.

At the end of the day everyone helped to take down the nets, some of which were very wet.

CES 10 was reasonably busy with over 200 birds processed.  Again most birds through the ringing room were juvenile birds, many now well through their post juvenile moult.  On the last net round quite a special Willow Warbler was caught.  When the ring was checked and then double checked it was found to be a bird originally ringed in Spain.  We will receive more details about this bird in due course.  It was the first Spanish ringed bird ever caught on the reserve.

It was a very tiring and demanding day due to the weather conditions.  A huge thank you, as always, go to the bird ringers, and to those volunteers who helped prepare the net rides ready for today.  Not forgetting Colin who filled the feeders.

Down on the lake The 'Tufties' were keeping their feet dry.