A Cold Day

Monday, December 5th 2011

An early morning walk saw the sun rising as the ringers put up the nets.  A cold but sunny day was forecast.

Without the smoke, the area where all the work was carried out yesterday, looked very good.  It will soon be ready for replanting.  A huge thank you to everyone who helped with this work.

Early morning rain had left sparkling droplets on trees and berries.

During the sunny morning good numbers of birds were processed including many new continental Blackbirds and 18 Goldfinches!  As the day wore on the clouds built and then quite unexpectedly sleet started to rain down.   Nets were quickly emptied of birds and had to be temporarily closed, but this had hardly been achieved when the sun came back out again!  There was a period of reasonable weather but then more sleet arrived so the nets were taken down. 

As the staff and ringers left the reserve scrapers and de-icers were needed on the windscreens! 

Although the weather was not ideal over 200 birds were processed including Siskin, Marsh Tit, Reed Bunting, Redwing, Lesser Redpoll and Goldcrest.  The total of new birds ringed at Foxglove this year now stands at over 3700!

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