Last year with the help and thanks of Mr Les Kneale i started a small project on ringing Swallows in the nest around the farms close to me in the Maughold area.
Les invited me down to ring the Swallows in his garage and then introduced me to most of the farmers in my area.
96 Swallow Pulli ringed in 2011
Today i started this years project at Les's House with 4 Swallow Chicks ringed.
The weather as we all know has been atrocious, rain rain rain and already we have had reports of dead chicks in nests.
Today as i started i was surprised to see some good size broods of 5 and 6 and all in good shape with feathers Short {just started to emerge from sheaves}
31 Swallow Chicks {Pulli} ringed today and more farms to visit this week.
Just looked at the forecast and yes Rain Rain Rain for the next 3 days, what a Summer.
Yesterday Kev and i were at the St Johns site with 54 new birds ringed
Siskins Gt Tits Blue Tit Coal Tit Chaffinch and House Sparrows big thanks to Christine for all the tea and Cheese on Toast. We then went to Peel where 4 More Herring Gull were Colour ringed.
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