On Saturday I did a ringing demonstration for Ailsa's Birding for Beginners talk (which was really good!! I highly recommend her talks! I learnt so much :D). I got to the reserve for 6:30 and put up 4 nets - a 9 metre, 2x 12 metre and an 18 metre! I'd just finished putting up the last net when Ian arrived, shortly followed by Jan, and they put one more net up. We retrapped a pair of Treecreepers - the same one's that I retrap here a lot that are good examples of different ages. The younger one is the male - toyboy hahaha. :P
We caught all of the birds before the ringing demonstration took place. The one guy who turned up early saw the Blackcap but sadly no one else got to see any birds in the hand. Thank you so much Jan and Ian for coming because I don't know how I'd have coped with having to run around every 10 minutes checking the nets praying for there to be a bird AND entertain 10 people at the same time all on my own! You guys basically saved my bacon so thank you very much 💓
We found out when Simon came to lead the group of people back to the NDC that there was an event happening in the reserve at 10 - it was 9:30 at that point so naturally I freaked out 😅 but Ian reassured me that it wouldn't take long to take the nets down with three of us, and it didn't 😁 so again, thank you! xx
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