We decided to do a back to back session, doing the roost Friday night and going back early Saturday morning, this being the first am visit this year to the site. The Friday evening session was fairly quite, with eighteen birds, with two Swallows and eight Sand Martins. There was at one stage about 30 Swallows present, but the appearance of the Sparrowhawk caused them to all depart. We also had a Yellow Wagtail tape going for a short while, but decided to change it to Sand Martin, but in doing so flushed a few birds coming into roost, with a group of about 20/30 flying low over and off. Saturday turned out to be as quite as the night before despite the dawn start. The only bird of interest was a re-trapped 3 Cetti's that had been in the area since June, otherwise only 36 birds were caught. The lack of birds did at least motivate us to fix the NR 60 ft that had a broken bottom line that had needed repairing for about 12 months, which was at least one good thing done as it was a fairly new net.
Friday totals:
Sand Martin -8
Swallow - 2
Dunnock - 0 (1)
Reed Warbler -1
Blackcap -1
Chiff-chaff - 4 (1)
Saturday totals:
Dunnock - 0 (1)
Robin - 0 (1)
Cetti's Warbler - 0 (1)
Sedge Warbler - 3
Reed Warbler - 6 (1)
Whitethroat - 2
Blackcap - 9
Chiff-chaff - 5 (1)
Great Tit - 5 (1)
