It's been a while, but today we met up with M&M to ring at Broadwater. Restrictions for Covid19 were relaxed on July 19th, and we have all had two doses of the vaccine but it still seems prudent to distance as we have done previously during this pandemic. We had seven nets up and managed a joint total of 65 birds. There was a general feeling of quiet and we were not surprised that we did not repeat the '29 birds in one net on the first round' that we experienced on July 23rd.
We were mindful of a forecast of rain for the afternoon, so worked with one eye on the darkening clouds and were packed up and off site by 11:10am. The rain that started while we were driving home was quite heavy in short bursts and followed by some substantial downpours later in the afternoon. Caution was well warranted today.
Dunnock - 2 (3)
Blackbird - 7 (1)
Garden Warbler - 3 (1)
Blackcap - 19 (1)
Chiffchaff - 14 (1)
Blue Tit - 1 (1)
Great Tit - 2