22/07/2012 Not much to report from this session, except that we ringed a dunnock, a species which has become a bit of a local rarity, as you can see from a plot of our annual ringing totals below. No need for a trendline! There has been a similar long term decline for robin and wren too. The reasons for this are unclear but may be to do with the rising deer population and the effect this is having on the woodland understorey - i.e. removing it!
An interesting titbit concerning the dunnock: it belongs to the Accentor family, and Accentors are the only bird family that is endemic to the Western Palearctic (our part of the bird world basically). To my mind, this makes the unassuming dunnock a rather special bird and not just a boring 'hedge sparrow'!
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| Annual ringing totals - dunnock. |
An interesting titbit concerning the dunnock: it belongs to the Accentor family, and Accentors are the only bird family that is endemic to the Western Palearctic (our part of the bird world basically). To my mind, this makes the unassuming dunnock a rather special bird and not just a boring 'hedge sparrow'!
Trapping totals (ringed and retraps) were:
blackcap (0,1)
bullfinch (1,0)
bullfinch (1,0)
chiffchaff (6,0)
dunnock (1,0)
goldfinch (3,0)
great tit (2,0)
reed warbler (3,0)
dunnock (1,0)
goldfinch (3,0)
great tit (2,0)
reed warbler (3,0)
whitethroat (1,0)
willow warbler (3,2)
wren (1,0)
DAY TOTALS: 23 ringed (10 species), 2 retraps
NEW SPECIES: none
OBS: common lizard
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