Tuesday, January 11, 2011

More Mute Swans

I met Chris and Sean this morning up at the Point of Ayre. Chris and I surveyed the gravel pits and Sean had his woosh net set for the Twite again.
The survey was very quiet with the highlights being 2 redhead Goosander on the main pit and a Woodcock flushed from a small patch of willows as we walked by.
When we returned to Sean he had caught 1 new Twite and 1 retrap from yesterday.

We packed up and Sean and I then went to Ramsey harbour to try to catch some more Mute Swans.
We caught 2 new juveniles and sighted 6 colour ringed birds we had done over the last few months.

B21 - ringed on 21st December 2010 and one of the 6 ringed Swans seen today

On the way home I stopped off at the Eairy Dam in Foxdale, not much there apart from a nice drake Gadwall and a good number of Teal roosting on the back edge.

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