With the ‘A-Team’ playing at Oxwich Marsh it was an opportunity for the reserves to pay a first visit of 2015 to ‘Margam Country Park’. I joined Chris Newberry (Kenfig Ringing Group) for an 07:00 sign-in at the gate before we proceeded to set up 1 x 12 metres net and 1 x 18 metres net near the pond and 2 x 18 metres nets along the lower fence line.
Our first bird of the morning was an adult male Goldcrest which has been a regular visitor to our nets since it was first captured in January 2014. Little did we know that is was going to turn out to be such a ‘Golden Morning’ with a further ten Goldcrests finding their way into the nets.
Goldcrest
Final total for the morning:
|
Species
|
New
|
Retrap
|
Total
|
|
Wren
|
|
1
|
1
|
|
Dunnock
|
2
|
1
|
3
|
|
Robin
|
1
|
|
1
|
|
Goldcrest
|
8
|
3
|
11
|
|
Blue
Tit |
4
|
2
|
6
|
|
Long
Tailed Tit |
3
|
|
3
|
|
|
18
|
7
|
25
|
