This is the last time we'll be ringing before Christmas Day, so Merry Christmas to all blog readers! We arrived at 7:30, nets up by 8. BBC weather said that it was due to get windy around 11, so we had plenty of time to try to catch some birds beforehand. We put the Gundry net in the usual place, further away from the gate than last time. We put the 6 metre North Ronaldsey net up by the children's seating area and we put the 9 metre Ecotone net in the left near corner of the Reserve.
It was a very slow morning ringing wise, with only two birds caught, both retraps. The weather was being a bit weird, too, getting windy and then settling down, raining a bit and then stopping. We heard a lot of tits calling, so we used Ian's CD/speaker to try to call them in, but no luck. After seeing about 8 Chaffinches in the reserve, we tried playing their call. The next few times we checked the nets, we heard one Chaffinch calling back to the recording, but we didn't catch any. Finally, as we were about to take the last net down, we saw a Bullfinch. We played Bullfinch calls for 5 minutes while we put the other equipment back in the car, but no luck.
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