Another beautiful day today, with light south-easterlies I
really expected a significant arrival of summer migrants but still no real sign
of this. Highlight was this cracking Tawny Owl roosting pretty much out in the
open in the Magic Garden.
Yesterday John and Beryl came and set up their mist nets in
the Garden. This reinforced the view that birds are very late with only a
single Whitethroat, three Blackcaps, four Chiffchaffs and three Willow Warblers representing the
summer visitors. This Willow was carrying a ring which wasn’t John’s so will be
interesting to see where this has come from…
Two of the Blackcaps were ringed here last year…
In fact there were about a dozen re-traps in all, including
three birds caught in succession who were carrying sequential ring numbers from
last year. Not sure what the odds on that would be!
But this Treecreeper was unringed…
As was this Goldcrest…
In the end it was an early finish as a breeze blew up and
turned the nets from virtually invisible…
To impossible to miss…
I can’t talk about yesterday without mentioning the Tour De
Yorkshire which came through the village yesterday. what a fantastic event…
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