Long night/small wonders

We tried for owls again last night. It was fairly slow going with 'just' three Tengmalm's Owls caught — including a Swedish control. After several blank rounds, we closed the nets at 2 O'clock to head back and get a few hour's kip.

It was another reasonably busy day's ringing today: 1,230 birds, less dominated by Goldcrests (though we did get another bird carrying a Russian ring) and with quite a bit of variation (totals online — click Ringing). The highlight for me was this 1cy female Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, a species that I really don't get to see often enough...

This 1cy Robin had leucistic outer primaries/primary coverts on the right wing: