Finch Age before leg ringing

[spanna]

No, I should have said that. Many birds won't tolerate nest inspections at all, good point Madhatter.

[djb78]

I'm with gomer on this one, I try and wait a week at least before ringing mine,on average about 3weeks. When I hage a few pairs and young fledge at around the same time I will ring them all the same colour to make sure that I wouldn't sell any related young as pairs. This might not be the most effective way but seems to work for me.

[spoton]

Thanks everyone for the advice in the previous posts. Banded my older youngsters today (they ranged from 2 - 3 weeks of age) and all went well.

Was interesting watching the response of the different pairs of parents involved. Ranged from sitting on a perch a few inches from where I banded them to sitting on top of the nest box the youngsters at the time came from to actually staying in the box as I removed / returned youngsters.

Still have a few others to do, but will wait a another week or so for them.

Thanks again

Darryl