Birds are recorded at the ringing station in Rye – in pictures
At first light Richard Dale collects migrating birds caught in the mist net Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty ImagesA grasshopper warbler is ringed. Identification helps with tracking and monitoring population trendsPhotograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty ImagesA warbler is unhooked from a mist netPhotograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images
A member of the warbler family is weighed inside a ringing hut. Body weight is one aspect added to the collated dataPhotograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty ImagesA warbler hangs in a mist netPhotograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty ImagesAfter a night resting the bags containing Sand Martins are hung on a washing line in the early moring ready to be released back into the wildPhotograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty ImagesA sand martin is caught in a mist net Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty ImagesA chiffchaff is recorded at a ringing hutPhotograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty ImagesA warbler is recovered from a mist net Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty ImagesA volunteer blows on the head of a warbler to help gauge it's maturity Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty ImagesPete Carr collects migrating birds at first lightPhotograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty ImagesA warbler is released from the ringing hut Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images
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