After our solo visit Wednesday night, early next morning a team of us returned, with Carl, Karl and Helen joining me from the ringing group, with Denise having to go to work, which turned out to cause her much frustration as we caught the sites first Little Owl, a bird she has not rung either. I was hoping with four of us, that today would not be a repeat of our last morning's visit, on 3rd, which only had arelatively low catch of c30 birds. Luckily, I set up a net on one of the mounds in the hope of catching some local Meadow Pipits, and fortunately it paid off, producing 39 out of the 108 birds caught. Other birds of interest from the morning, as well as the sites first Little Owl, was our first Tree Pipit coming from the Mepits net, and a Woodpigeon, that was in the same net together with the Little Owl. We also caught we a single Sedge Warbler and Whitethroat, with the other Warbler species being three Reed Warblers, 18 Blackcaps and four Chiff-chaffs.
One of the first Meadow Pipits of theautumn.
Tree Pipit - 3
Little Owl - 3
Woodpigeon - 4
Mipit nets in a V set up
Totals :
Woodpigeon - 1
Little Owl - 1
Kingfisher - 0 (1)
Tree Pipit - 1
Meadow Pipit - 39
Robin - 8 (3)
Dunnock - 8 (1)
Blackbird - 2
Song Thrush -1
Sedge Warbler - 1
Reed Warbler - 3
Whitethroat - 1
Blackcap - 18
Chiff-chaff -4
Blue Tit - 6 (1)
Great Tit - 3
Chaffinch - 1
Linnet - 3
Reed Bunting -1
