I woke at 0530 to the sound of wind and rain on the window . Surely they wont be ringing today i thought. No text message had come through to say otherwise so i set off at 6am over the Pennines .God the weather was atrocious. By the time i got to Martin Mere at 0730, the rain had nearly stopped.
After a quick meeting about the weather and how they thought a catch could be done , mainly going for Duck and a few Whoopers. We all got are waders and waterproofs on and off we went.
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3 Hours later 110 birds caught.
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52 Mallard all new birds and 1 retrap
18 new Shelduck and 13 retraps
13 Pintail
7 Pochard
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1 Wigeon
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1 Greylag Goose
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and
3 Whooper Swans 1 Mute Swan
A cracking start to the season. A big thank you to everyone involved.
Please check out the link below to follow the Whooper Swans and see the work
The WWT are doing
Also check this page out on Kanes site showing the methods used in catching Swans and Ducks at Caerlaverock and Martin Mere
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