Ty Rhyg

It's fairly quiet now up at Ty Rhyg with virtually all of the summer migrants now departed apart from a few Chiffs. Today there were 6 Crossbills, 25 Redpolls and good numbers of Goldcrests. Over the last two months over 500 birds have been mist-netted there including 90 Willow Warblers, 83 Chiffs, 47 Redpolls and 4 Willow Tits. The actual number of Redpolls using the site is likely to be much higher as the retrap rate is very low (only 2 individuals caught twice). At the moment the redpolls are feeding on the rosebay Willow-herb seeds but when rearing broods they could be seen getting caterpillars off the Sallow branches.