Brambling

Unusually almost no wind this morning and sunny. The weather dragged me out of bed to open my mist-nets and by early afternoon I had caught a total of fourteen birds. It might not sound many but, to put it in context, this was a third of last year's total.
The excitement was catching a ringed Greenfinch, ringed not by me but the other Uist ringer on South Uist.
The wind got up and the nets were closed so a stroll at Balranald was called for. Plenty of finches about and this bright male Brambling stood out in the feeding flock by the car-park.