Don't You Just Love It?

When a plan works (for once). Set a net for a Grey Wagtail, catch a Grey Wagtail.

Age and sex please you trainee types, and your reasons.

Also, re-trapped today, Blue Tit P408722, ringed 13-Mar-05, age code 5, making it about 7½ years old.  The oldest known from ringing records was aged 9 years 9 months 2 days (set in 1990)

 Update, OGC detail:

 

And it's a female, that's not a white stripe, just the top of the white throat area. If there was going to be any black male plumage it would have been visible by now.