The first calm morning this year was not wasted. An invitation to Doug from the Axe Estuary Ringing Group to join in proved to be a useful morning. No exotics and the woodpeckers were there but they turned shy on seeing my guest. Even the Treecreepers teased us by feeding on the trees adjacent to the nets but not actually connecting with them.
Plenty of Blue and Great Tits at the feeders and also good numbers of Greenfinchs. A small highlight was trapping one of Lukes Greenfinchs from nearby Clouds Hill.
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| Blue Tit joining in where the last woodpecker left off! |
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| Even the Great Tit joined in! |
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| A placid Dunnock |
A couple of Goldfinch were also trapped. Not too many of these are trapped at the Swannery so these were a couple of good birds for the morning.
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| Male Goldfinch |
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| Male Greenfinch |
The morning ended assisting Dave with feeding the Mute Swans. Pochard and Tufted gleamed in the morning sunshine. Following on from this 'duck' link is the visit to Seaton Sunday morning when the next cannon net session will take place. Luke and I are hoping for Godwits but expect Shelduck will prevail. At least they have blunt bills!
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