This session didn't quite run to plan as a trainee that had expected to join us wasn't able to make it. Nevertheless, CL and I got seven nets up and processed 54 birds. These included the first young Whitethroats of the year.
The first Whitethroat juvenile of the year.
5M Whitethroat AFK6796. This bird was hatched last year, but we look forward to hearing exactly when it was ringed. This may give an indication whether Wraysbury is its natal site and the capture occurred after it started its migration. Many of our breeding birds return here to the place where we ringed them shortly after they fledged.
Report from the BTO shows this bird was ringed at Lancing College, West Sussex on 11th August 2020.
This may well support the theory that it was captured as it made its way to mainland Europe for the first time. Wraysbury is 69km NNW of Lancing.
Emperor Dragonfly
Total: 43(11)
Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1
Song Thrush - 0 (1)
Robin - 3
Dunnock - 4 (2)
Whitethroat - 6 (4 + 1 control)
Garden Warbler - 1 (2)
Blackcap - 6
Chiffchaff - 3 (1)
Blue Tit - 11
Great Tit - 6
Starling - 2