With Mark back from his time away, we had another
ringing session at the fynbos study site, on a beautiful winter’s day. We appear
to be getting slack as firstly neither of us remembered a head torch (again)
and then realised we had left the bird stand and gazebo at home! Not so good!
But we put up 11 nets and waited. With all 6 of the Nature’s Valley Trust
interns there, as well as a big group of volunteers from ORCA joining us, it
was a busy people day! And a relatively busy bird day, a total of 47 birds
including the usual suspects of Cape Sugarbirds, Cape White-eyes,
Orange-breasted Sunbirds and Southern Double-collared Sunbirds. While checking
the nets with a small group of NVT interns that I am training I passed a bird
that made me do a double take and extract it, taking it to Mark with a big
smile on my face! A quite rare species, this Victorins Warbler is the second
that we have caught at this site, and as Mark pulled rank and ringed the first
we caught, I was granted the privilege of ringing this one, a new species for
my ringing list! Whoop!
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| Enjoying the morning. |
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| An Orange-breasted Sunbird coming into his colours. |
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| Victorin's Warbler in the spotlight. |
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| Victorin's Warbler. |
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