Phil Mead, Charlie Sargent and I joined Heather Coats for the sixth CES of the season at the Wildlife & Wetlands Trust‘s ‘Llanelli Wetlands Centre’ http://wwt.org.uk/wetland-centres/llanelli/
The normal one hundred and seventeen metres of mist netting was erected in the three rides plus a supplementary eighteen metre net set away from the CES site for training purposes.
The number of birds netted in the first half of the session tailed off after 09:30 as the temperature increased and possibly the bird population sought shelter as did the ringers, with the thermometer indicating twenty-five degrees Celsius.
Totals for the day:
|
Species
|
Adult
|
Juvenile
|
Retrap
|
|
CES Nets
|
|
|
|
|
Blackbird
|
|
3
|
1
|
|
Blackcap
|
|
1
|
1
|
|
Blue Tit
|
|
6
|
|
|
Chiffchaff
|
1
|
4
|
|
|
Dunnock
|
1
|
2
|
|
|
Great Spotted Woodpecker
|
|
1
|
|
|
Great Tit
|
|
1
|
|
|
Jay
|
|
|
1
|
|
Robin
|
1
|
3
|
|
|
Wren
|
|
3
|
3
|
|
Total
|
3
|
24
|
6
|
|
Additional Net
|
|
|
|
|
Blue Tit
|
1
|
1
|
|
|
Great Tit
|
|
4
|
|
|
Long Tailed Tit
|
|
|
1
|
|
Grand
Total |
4
|
29
|
7
|
Female Jay
Great Spotted Woodpecker
Female Broad-bodied Chaser
