A Question

Thursday, November 17th 2011

Over the years facts and figures have been written about the bird ringing at Foxglove Covert. Facts include the number of hours of ringing, to the amount of miles walked and the number of cups of tea made and sticky buns eaten.

It is well known that the birds, carefully removed from the nets are placed in the bird bags and returned to the ringing room.

Bird bags in the ringing room

At the end of every session the bags are turned inside out and counted to ensure no birds are left in bags and no bags are missing. Some empty bags have the mishap of falling into mud, getting wet and er dirty!

What happens next?

One of the bird ringers collects the box and takes the bags home to be washed and dried.

Bird bags drying

Once dried and aired they are returned ready to receive the birds for ringing.

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