I have had several banding attempts over the last few days with some success, mostly with Sparrows. On Monday I had nets up for the morning and caught 62 birds which is the highest total for a day. As expected at this net site the majority were Juv House Sparrows. On Tuesday it was a bit windy for nets but I did catch some birds in the neighbours hen house, again mostly Sparrows but also a couple of Blackbird recaps. Both were interesting. One had held the record for the oldest bird caught here, it still holds it but now by a few more days. The other was one of the pulus I banded a couple of months ago. Great to know it has survived at least for this period. Yesterday I had nets up for an hour or so until the wind got too strong, but still manged 16 birds.
The combined totals for the 3 days was -
Blackbird - 1 (6)
Dunnock - 0 (1)
House Sparrow - 49 (20)Mostly juveniles but there were a number of older birds.
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| This juvenile Sparrow was in the process of renewing some of its tail feathers |
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| A number of Sparrows have very prominent fault/growth bars on their tails. |
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| A few of the juvenile male Sparrows are starting to show their "true colours" |
Goldfinch - 1 (0)
Chaffinch - 3 (3)
Starling - 1 (0)
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| The Starling, the first caught for a while was sexed as a female by its white eye ring. |
Bellbird - 1 (0)
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| I think the Bellbird was a year old bird due to eye colour but not 100% sure. |
Tui - 1 (1)
I was hoping to have caught some fledgling Bellbird or/and Tui by now but all those caught were older birds, mostly old boys.
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