An amazing flat calm day, especially after yesterday's blow, produced high expectations that the morning's ringing session would be memorable; it was but through most of the morning it was steady, if unremarkable with 60 new birds caught - until the final round, when I extracted a stunning female Lesser-spotted Woodpecker from the net by the front door - only the fourth to be ringed here at the station and (more importantly!) the first I have ever seen in the hand! Other birds caught included a new Firecrest and another influx of 20 Dunnocks with a Spanish ringed bird in amongst them.
Lesser-spotted Woodpecker
I'm running out of different angles to photograph Firecrests in the hand!
There wasn't really much else to be seen around the garden through the morning with a Mistle Thrush, a Great-spotted Woodpecker and a Buzzard of note while a Black-throated Diver passed at sea.
Kroghage in the afternoon was also pretty quiet with a Ring Ouzel, a Blackcap and a Marsh Harrier to mention - a gorgeous spring afternoon though!
Sadly this bird was found washed up on the beach by the marina - a fairly easy mystery bird photograph, any guesses?
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