A couple of months ago we moved from Campbeltown itself to a cottage not far from the edge of town, nice house, nice big garden, surrounded by fields - its idyllic. Since moving in i have been attracting birds to the garden with a few feeders and other types of wildlife simply by leaving a corner of the garden untouched. The bird population is growing and there is a vast array of insects, butterfly's, bats, mice, shrews and even damselfly's that have taken up residence around our home.
This morning despite looking a bit gloomy i decided (along with molly) to open up a mist net in the garden and see what we could catch. As it turned out we only had the net open for just short of an hour before the rain came on but in this time we managed to ring 43 new birds;
3 Great tit 
1 Blue tit
21 Chaffinch
1 Willow warbler
13 Greenfinch
4 House sparrow
Also this morning there were a family party of Goldfinches in the garden and i watched an adult feeding a recently fledged chick that was persistently begging on the back path, goldfinch seen on one of the feeders for the first time as well. An adult dunnock was at the back of the garden feeding under one of the small hedges, 2 Collared dove were below the feeders.
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