Boxes Mipits and more Boxes

So March ends and the East wind still hits the island and the only migration going on is by Meadow Pipits so far.

24 Meadow Pipits ringed this week.

Two garden feeder sites visited this week and in all this cold and snow you would of thought we would of been busy, but NO.

16 new birds were ringed at the Sulby site Coal Tits Great Tits and 7 more Siskin.

4 hours spent at Ballanelson yesterday and only 15 new birds ringed with a few retraps

1 Lesser Redpoll, 1 Blackbird, 1 Greenfinch, Chaffinch, House Sparrow, Dunnock, Gt Tits, Blue Tits, and Robins.

In the afternoon i decided to visits a friends Farm out Andreas way. I set one net near their feeders and went for a quick look round.

10 new birds ringed Gt Tit, Blue Tit, Long tailed Tit, Chaffinch, Robin and a Tree Sparrow!!!, the first adult Tree Sparrow ringed on the island in nearly 2 years. They are having a bit of a hard time on the island with only one site out in the Curraghs that we know about,  hopefully now i know they are at this new site we can encourage them to increase their population with feeders and Nest Boxes.

Tree Sparrow

Today i went back and placed 5 Tree Sparrow nest Boxes up at the site also saw 3 Tree Sparrows
on Feeders.

On Friday i met up with Les and we placed another 2 Barn Owl Boxes up. A big thanks to Les for all the  help, contacts and knowledge he has.

 So numbers wise another 67 new birds ringed this week hopefully April will bring the Sun, the Wheatears and the Warblers.