Stanwell Moor GP - 2nd July 2018

We tried an evening session by the lake. The planes were taking off from the North runway so disturbance over the rides would be at its lowest. The wind was stronger than we would have liked and we hoped that it would reduce once the sun dropped below the horizon, but that was not to be the case. There also appeared to be litle moving about in the heat.

The nets were all wind affected to varying degrees, all except one that was perfectly sheltered and caught nothing all evening except a single Wren.

We got a steady trickle of Reed Warblers from the reed-bed with no more than a handful of birds from the track net that was too obvious to provide any real prospect of catching much.
There were a few hirundines overhead and although we saw like evidence of pre-roosting flight behaviour, we managed a meagre three Swallows and one Sand Martin at the end of the day. The fact that one of the juvenile  Swallows carried ring ADA7882 added extra value and we look forward to finding out when and where this bird was ringed. We're guessing it was probably ringed as a pullus.

Totals:  13 (5)

Sand Martin - 1
Swallow - 2 (1)
Wren - 0 (1)
Whitethroat - 1 (1)
Reed Warbler - 7 (2)
Chiffchaff - 1
Greenfinch - 1