Twite at Whiteholme

Popped up to whiteholme reservoir at 1230 looking for wheatears in the thick fog . After weeks of putting seed down for the Twite and not seeing any in good numbers. Today i had 30+ on the seed so i set up. 11 Twite caught, 5 of which were new birds the other 6 were a mixture. 1 from Deer Hill 1 from Cant Clough 4 from whiteholme.

The five new birds today have all been indevidually colour coded on the right leg with the BTO metal ring .

On the left we are now using White Blue for the year 2008 Jan>June

and Blue White July>Dec.

The sites are going to be bright pink for Deer Hill and Flyflats on Left leg with year ring

Cant Clough and Whiteholme are now going to be Red on Left leg with year ring.

Last Week very quite Due to awful weather a pair off Bullfinches at Stainland Dean ringed .