CES 2

Friday, May 15th 2015

With high winds forecast over the weekend and into next week, the second of the CES ringing days began today at 5am. Several of the bird ringers came in before work to help erect the nets and returned again at the end of their day to help finish processing the birds and to take the nets down.

By the close of play 93 birds of 23 species were caught, including this female Kingfisher.

A male redstart was also caught. These birds were absent from the ringing room last summer so it is brilliant to see them back on the reserve. The birds caught were typical of the second CES day, with many more males caught as females are now incubating eggs.

Thank you to all the ringers who put in time today, and all those others who delivered food, made tea and helped out.

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