Ringing Woodcock...

With the moon making the nights very light at the moment, the only option is to get up at silly o'clock before work to try and catch Woodcock. So at 4 o'clock this morning myself and Tony set off to Crychan! When we got there the wind was very strong (and cold), so we didn't really get up ant hopes of catching many, if any at all! So we were both very pleased with a catch of 5 from a possible 27 birds! Well worth getting up for!

Tawny Owls....

1 adult male trapped and ringed this evening in Nantmel.

'Knot' a bad night....

After last nights poor catch of just 4 birds (Dunlin, Golden Plover, Oystercatcher and Redshank), at Ynyslas, we were determind to give it another go. What a good decision that was, after an hour or so walking through fields catching only 1 Woodcock, we decided to head for the beach where we caught 1 Dunlin, 4 Redshanks and 3 Knot (2 of them in 1 net!), which was a new ringing species for me, wahoo!! Jsut before we left we had a quick stop at 1 more field were we caught 2 Golden Plovers (both in the same net), a nice end to the night!