I thought I'd have a go at using bricks and did a test run in Ailsa's garden (thank you Ailsa!) ...I'm sad to say that the bricks are kinda rubbish - just one brick isn't heavy enough and dragged along the ground when I tightened the string, and when I used two bricks the top one fell off the bottom one when I tightened the string, but it did work somewhat and held up for the two hours that I left the net up for, but ideally I'd like something that I can rely on a bit more! I had thought of buying breeze blocks or something and I think I'm going to have to unless I get any other bright ideas... 💡😕 any ideas are very welcome!!
In the two hours that I was ringing I caught two Blue Tits. Ailsa has two seed feeders, a fat ball feeder and a table feeder that has meal worms on it. I could have caught a lot more if I'd set the net in a different position - there were House Sparrows and Goldfinches in the trees, two Starlings came to the fat ball feeder, there were Blue Tit's on the seed feeder and a Robin going for the meal worms. A female Blackbird showed interest in the meal worms too but she didn't stay for long.
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