A trip out Saturday am with the ringing group, was one of the few occasions this September a session at this site has been viable as it is easily affected by wind conditons. It is usually a very good site early/mid September for Blackcaps, but with other local catches and with September nearing an end, the potential for the day was not high. As it turned out this was partly correct, Blackcap numbers were not high, with only 29, not a particularly high no, though the days over all totals was 121, this is not significnat for September where 200 + would be expected. There was one surpirse though, a late Nightingale, only the seventh for the site with the last in 2001, a spring bird in April, with no previous autumn records. This species used to breed at this site but along with Grasshopper Warbler has in recent years disappeared from the site.
Goldcrest - 3
Meadow Pipit - 3
Nightingale - 3 (and below)
Totals:
Green Woodpecker - 0 (1)
Meadow Pipit - 20
Robin - 4 (2)
Dunnock - 6 (1)
Nightingale - 1
Blackbird - 2 (1)
Blackcap - 29
Chiff-chaff - 26 (2)
Goldcrest - 5
Blue Tit - 3 (3)
Great Tit - 1 (1)
Treecreeper - 1
Jay -1
Chaffinch - 4
Goldfinch - 3
Linnet - 1
