Today I went over to Lavell's Lake, Dinton Pastures CP to give TA a hand whilst D was at work. There was only three of us, and as the ringing session was being run as a CES and there were no tapes being played for migrant species. Despite this, we had a surprisingly high catch of 99 birds, the majority being Warblers, 74 in total, with obvious passage birds being 17 Sedge Warblers, 11 Garden Warblers, 4 Whitethroats, and undoubtedly some of the 13 Chiff-chaffs, also being migrants. A juvenile Kingfisher and two Bullfinches rounded the mornign off nicely.
Total: 98 (1)
Moult on adult Blackcap, with one odd old feather that had
failed to fully grow at P8
Bullfinch - 3 juv
Kingfisher - 3
Total: 98 (1)
Kingfisher - 1
Wren - 1
Song Thrush - 2
Sedge Warbler - 17
Reed Warbler - 29
Wren - 1
Song Thrush - 2
Sedge Warbler - 17
Reed Warbler - 29
Whitethroat - 4
Garden Warbler - 11
Blackcap - 5
Chiffchaff - 13
Chiffchaff - 13
Great Tit - 1
Blue Tit - 1(1)
Blue Tit - 1(1)
Long Tailed Tit - 7
Greenfinch - 4
Bullfinch - 2
Bullfinch - 2