Tomorrow......

[El Annie]

Off on a ringing field trip tomorrow to a spot near Richmond in Nth Yorks, we'll be hoping for lots of Yellowhammers, will report back tomorrow nite.

Annie :)

[jayhunter]

Hope you are lucky Annie, I don't see any here in Cheshire. Only time I get to see them is when I go to visit my Mother in Hampshire. Which will be next month now, they seem to come out in the summer months, or maybe I wake up then and become more observant!!

[Johnny1]

We get quite a few Yellowhammers in this part of Lancs but they all dissapear in winter, I havn't seen one since November tho they'll be returning to their nesting territories shortly. I hope you managed to get up early this morning.

[steve_nova]

Yes, good birding Annie. I presume by ringing (yes I can be quite stupid at times) you mean that the birds are going to be ringed?

[El Annie]

Eeeee silly me, I'd completely forgotten that I'd said I'd post results of Sunday's jaunt!! It wasn't bad, we stayed just for the morning 8.15 til about 12, caught 4 YH's ( had 11 on the previous trip) and a few other species - predominantly Blackies. There were quite large flocks of YH's all around us but they kept flying over the nets!! A plus to the day though was a walk through the woodland where we saw Tawny Owl, Woodcock, some very rare bright red fungus and a brill old tree riddled with Woodie holes which I shall photograph for the gallery next time we go up there.

Annie :)