I was joined today by Tracy and Dave Buchan and their daughter Heather for a day of ringing at our local Wild Flower Garden. It turned out to be a beautiful day with clear blue skies and not a breath of wind for most of the day. We started out at the reasonable hour of 8.00am and put up only 4 nets.
Within minutes Cape White-eyes were flying into the nets thick and fast.
At the end of the day we ringed +- 60 birds and I added Brimstone Canary to my list of new species. Most of the birds were White-eyes and we also recaught 5 birds that we ringed at our last session on the 29th of May.
Other than White-eyes, we caught Swee Waxbill, Cape Canary, Olive Thrush, Malachite Sunbird, Cape Robin-Chat and the Brimstone Canary.
We were visited by a little 4 striped mouse while we were busy, there seem to be quite a few of them in the garden.
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