Hilfield Park Res 15 May 2011

Denise and I joined the Maple Cross half of our RG today, mainly to catch up with a few people we had not seen for a while. The wind was blowing quite strongly, and cold from the NW, making the conditions less than ideal, leaving the ten people there with not much to do, with only three new birds and 14 re-traps for the CES session, despite 10 + nets rides in action. Swifts were feeding very low over the water and at times low over the adjacent land and attempts to flick them were made with eventually just one being caught, resulting in the first time Chris had experience of one in the hand.

In total the three new birds were Swift, Garden Warbler and Whitethroat.

Swift - 6