Looks like we likely won't be banding the lone chick at McKenzie Seeds this year - to be able to access the chicks safely for both the chick and for us, we need to have the whole team in place and unfortunately, two of our crew are working their ways through injury and illness, so I suspect that we will miss the window we need to band safely. Not ideal, but it hasn't happened before in Brandon so I guess we were about due. We've had to skip banding a few times elsewhere, but the Brandon trip is always so much fun that it seems we have always managed to pull it off. RCF is keeping us supplied with photos of the tot (bit tot) and if we can still slip in a banding we will, if not, we will wish her (yup, I think it is a female too) a nice, boring fledge in a few more weeks!
