Raffle Draw!

Thursday, September 1st 2011

The raffle for the Owl sculpture that has been standing at the entrance to the field centre was drawn today!  The sculpture was crafted using a chainsaw by Jez Kalkowski and was kindly donated by him to Foxglove Covert for the prize.

Congratulations to Bob Longridge, who is the lucky winner of the draw!

Whilst the draw was taking place members of the ringing team had been on Bardon Moor since before dawn catching Meadow Pipits.  They managed to catch over 200 juvenile Meadow Pipits and an interesting selection of other birds including Skylark, Wheatear, Linnet, Goldfinch and a Whitethroat.  This brings the total of mipits for the week to over 700!!  The photograph shows some of the team hard at work making the most of this rare opportunity to handle such an interesting selection of birds.

Bird ringers


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