A good week this week, despite losing two days ringing - one to heavy rain and one to strong winds.
In the five days we could ring we caught 524 birds of 19 species, including our first Brambling and Yellow-browed Warblers of the autumn. Hopefully we should get more of these, particularly the Brambling, which we hope to get many of in November. The good totals took the number caught this year here to over 6000. which is just over 2000 more than the same date last year.
Most of the birds this week were Goldcrest with 391, followed by Robin with 64.
A couple of nice walks in late September sun and out of the wind it has been warm enough for several Viper (Adder) to be out basking. The island has many of these and also Water Snake (Grass Snake), but we have not seen these for weeks now.
For the first time since 31st August we have the Observatory to ourselves tonight - a rare treat which calls for a coupld of G&T's and a film on Netflix!!!
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