CES 5 - 20/6/14

Chris, Heather and Cedwyn arrived at 05:30 to be greeted by a little more wind than was expected. Luckily it eased almost immediately and by the time we had the nets up it had dropped to almost nothing. So a perfect mornings ringing in prospect and again there was an early bird in the net before we had really got them sorted.

A good variety of birds caught through the morning although almost 50% were Willow Warblers. Good to see  a large number of juveniles, which hopefully means they are having a good year. We were able to compare a number of birds and we did notice that while most had uniformly lemon yellow breast feathers, some were distinctly streaky and could be a challenge to age later in the year if caught again.

Juvenile Willow Warbler

While we are on the subject of juvenile birds it was excellent to catch a Treecreeper which is proof of breeding here at Kenfig which has been awaited for some time.

Juvenile Treecreeper

Maybe I'm being a little anthropomorphic but I get the distinct impression that the Treecreeper does not look too impressed with being caught and photographed.









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