March 2022 - Esme L and her mum Karen got the chance to accompany two licensed bird-ringers from the BTO, early one morning in a Hertfordshire woodland. It was an amazing experience, watching how the birds are harmlessly caught in a fine mist net, then carefully weighed and measured before having a small metal ring, carrying a unique number, attached around their leg, before finally being released. Ringing birds in the way, over many years, has helped the BTO track how birds move around their environment, and monitor their populations.
Esme was able to see several bird species up close, and to handle some of them. A truly inspiring trip, which one day may lead to Esme training to become a bird-ringer herself.
Two BTO-licensed bird ringers carefully retrieving
birds caught in a very fine mist net
Birds are identified, measured and weighed,
before a small ring is attached to their leg
Great Tit - note the small numbered aluminium
ring on the bird's right leg
Nuthatch
Esme carefully holding a Blue Tit ...
... before releasing it
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