This wasn't the best of starts as we arrived to find a padlocked gate before the bagging plant. So much for our early start. This gate had never been across in all the years that we've worked the site. It was too early to call the number on the gate so off we went for a drink from the cafe and on return the gate was being opened so only 30 minutes lost. That's another padlock number we need to find out and remember.
We put up four nets as there was a little tidying necessary in some rides and the weigh bridge net took a hit of just short of 30 birds before the fourth net had even been put up. We knew that nets could potentially catch large numbers as birds were now in large feeding flocks. We caught steadily for the first four rounds, then as the temperature increased bird numbers dropped somewhat. The weigh bridge net came down just before 10am as the metal heats up more than soil in warm conditions. We were packed up and gone by 11:30am.
Totals: 99 (2)
Wren - 1Dunnock - 3
Blackbird - 0 (1)
Reed Warbler - 1
Whitethroat - 1
Garden Warbler - 7
Blackcap - 39
Chiffchaff - 22 (1)
Long-tailed Tit - 1
Blue Tit - 14
Great Tit - 3
Jay - 1
Chaffinch - 1