Monday 24 November 2014

Ty'n-y-Caeau 24th November 2014

This morning I joined Heather Coats, Charlie Sargent and Phil Mead before dawn at a cold and frosty field in the Vale of Glamorgan. We set up our usual 260' of net along the hedge line and by the time we had tied the final pole we had caught two song thrushes - it augured well for the rest of the session (or did it)!
During our last visit in September there had been large mixed flocks of finches perched on the wires in the vicinity of our nets however this was not repeated today and we were surviving on slim pickings of linnets and a single yellowhammer - both new species for Phil (so it was not a wasted day).

Linnet

Yellowhammer

Following two hours without a bird we decided to call it a day at 11:00 with the grand total of thirteen birds as follows:


Species

Song Thrush
2
Dunnock
1
Linnet
9
Yellowhammer
1
Total
13