While we can start relatively early in the evening, we're trying to make a final push with night ringing before the days draw out and the clocks go forward. It was a very still night. A total of six owls were seen with one captured. We could have probably caught more had we moved the net around, as it was clear that the fence and posts had been claimed by the different pairs and there wasn't much interaction outside of the apparent pairs.
CL tried thermalling in the marsh fields and caught a Woodcock, two Skylark and a Meadow Pipit giving us four species, the most diversity of species to date during a night time session.
One of two Skylarks captured
Age 5 Woodcock
Barn Owl (unsexed as it behaved the way birds that present as male do, but there were a few spots under the wings, no buffy gorget and the mantle was a dark golden colour and tail barring not very light)
Total: 5
Barn Owl - 1
Meadow Pipit - 1
Skylark - 2
Woodcock - 1