Sunday 6 April 2014

Sand Martins caught at Chelmarsh

Saturday 5th April 2014

Just when Linda and I were giving up hope, a small and very active party of Sand Martins came into the scrape to feed some time after sunset. Of the 50+ birds thought to be flying around we caught 37 in the nets along the path to the hide. Of the 37, 4 were ringed as Chelmarsh birds, 3 from 2013 and 1 from 2011. Interestingly, two of the 2013 birds had been ringed together as juveniles on the same night last Autumn by Linda.

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