Thursday, April 19, 2012

Golden shower

This morning I went with Jonathan to ring in the field where I had the bunting yesterday, hoping to see or catch it with part of the hundreds of pipits and wagtails in the field. Unfortunately I spent the whole morning trying to avoid the sprinklers watering the field, and instead of being productive it was a useless morning. Not only that I did not relocate the bunting, we caught very little, and myself and my gear had a good soak in the treated sewage water used to water the field. Great fun.
However, we did have some nice birds - three flyby Collared Pratincoles, some cisticolas singing (good local bird), Whinchat, and 2 Monty's Harriers.

Collared Pratincoles - two of the three


Red-throated Pipit

Tree pipit

Common Nightingale

Thanks to Jonathan for the hard work this morning.

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