Wyke

4^th and 5^th JULY

                Just here around Wyke with obviously not too much to report but there was a couple of surprises with an adult Stock Dove caught in my nets at the bottom of the garden – first time I’ve seen one anywhere near the garden on 4^th and a Quail singing from a long grass field about 200m down the lane, he was singing on and off all morning on the 5^th – a Shropshire tick!

                An unremarkable few ringing sessions since in the short time I’ve been back in Wyke with only 33 new birds ringed revealed very few fledglings with hardly any young birds around (at least compared to last summer anyway); 6 new Bullfinches (all adults) was however, noteworthy.

Stock Dove