It was a less than promising evening as we met LON at the gate, with departing aircraft flying, low, right over the site. We had a few Swallows and House Martins overhead up on the soil heaps so tried a net there, but caught none. The track net brought a few Whitethroat with some of them now carrying fat scoring up to 3.
The reed bed was quiet, and the only birds from there as we waited for dusk were a Reed Warbler and recaptured Cetti's Warbler Z761916. The male was ringed on 28th December 2015 as a 3M, was recaptured the following January and this record is the third successive year it has been caught here.
There was no obvious pre-roost activity over the lake so it came as some surprise to find two juvenile Swallows in the nets as we went to take down.
Totals: 12 (1)
Swallow - 2
Robin - 0 (1)
Reed Warbler - 1
Whitethroat - 6
Chiffchaff - 1
Greenfinch - 1
The reed bed was quiet, and the only birds from there as we waited for dusk were a Reed Warbler and recaptured Cetti's Warbler Z761916. The male was ringed on 28th December 2015 as a 3M, was recaptured the following January and this record is the third successive year it has been caught here.
Z761916, adult male Cetti's Warbler
in primary moult.
There was no obvious pre-roost activity over the lake so it came as some surprise to find two juvenile Swallows in the nets as we went to take down.
Totals: 12 (1)
Swallow - 2
Robin - 0 (1)
Reed Warbler - 1
Whitethroat - 6
Chiffchaff - 1
Greenfinch - 1