Ringing at our Charnwood Forest site this weekend saw us ring our 1000th bird of the year there, and that honour went to one of the Redwing that come to roost there. Our previous best total was 724 that we only reached last year! Our totals for the last few weeks include 87 Chaffinch, 52 Blue Tit, 92 Goldcrest, 30 Redwing, 31 Blackbird and a late Blackcap.
We also had 4 redpoll with one being an adult male Common and this female Blackbird with a deformed bill.
This time of the year the forest has a wonderful variety of fungi including a lot of Fly Agaric
and this little, bright yellow thing which I think is a Parrot Wax Cap. Beautiful.
This time of the year the forest has a wonderful variety of fungi including a lot of Fly Agaric
and this little, bright yellow thing which I think is a Parrot Wax Cap. Beautiful. 
