Ringing

This weekend we concentrated our efforts in Saar with our target species Wheatears and Rock Thrush - we managed to catch a good number of Isabelline Wheatears with a few Desert and a single Pied, several more Rock Thrush and shrikes - the Kestrel was trapped in the desert and found to have a home made jessy still attached indicating it had at sometime, had a run in with the local village lads - the piece of string was removed from one leg and the bird was then ringed and released apparrently none the worse for its ordeal. The Stonechat (Badaan) was a loacl recapture having been ringed at the Farm during the course of the winter.