The track through the reedbed was finally dry enough to have been cut and this made setting the nets so much easier. We started off rather slowly although a small flock of Chaffinch, all in their first year, was a bit of a novelty for this time of year. By 10:30am it looked as though we might get up to 40 birds, then we had the first incidence of Chiffchaffs connecting with one of the double nets where we had been playing for Long-tailed Tit. They brought a Willow Warbler with them, only our 5th this year.
On the next round we had a similar number of birds, in the same net, again!
Getting a good few birds when we were thinking of starting to pack up set us back a little and we didn't get off site until 2:00pm, but it was great to get a decent catch. Only the second time we've got onto a second sheet this summer, we finished on 88 birds with over half Chiffchaff.
Total: 82 (6)
Blue Tit - 10 (2)
Chaffinch - 6
Chiffchaff - 47 (2)
Great Tit - 1 (1)
Long-tailed Tit - 4
Reed Warbler - 3
Sedge Warbler - 3 (1)
Willow Warbler - 1
Whitethroat - 6
Wren - 1
A nice little post script for PLD103, retrapped at Queen Mary Reservoir close to where we used to ring.
| Species: | Chiffchaff (Phylloscopus collybita) | Scheme: | GBT | Ring no: | PLD103 |