At this time of year it's possible to do some thermalling and still get home to make dinner for a reasonable time so we started off with a couple of nets for roosting Reed Buntings then tried the north fields, working around the showers.
The Reed Buntings only resulted in 12 birds before nets had to be pushed up in the rain, but it was still worthwhile as a recaptured bird was from the North Norfolk farm and had been ringed by us on the 8th of November. We are starting to build up a picture of how Reed Buntings use sites in Norfolk as we've had three separate movements between four of our sites in the last month.
The clouds were threatening more rain by the time we got to the north fields so I didn't try for owls. The field that has been too dry until very recently was now flooded and although CL saw 100+ Snipe and 4 Woodcock was only able to capture 2 Meadow Pipits.
Total: 12 (2)
Meadow Pipit - 2
Reed Bunting - 10 (2)