The morning started well but tailed off really quickly. The bright sunshine before 6am disappeared to be replaced by cloud cover and a quite breezy period mid-morning that resulted in much reduced activity and singing until later in the morning. We were packed up by midday with the catch as detailed below. A single Grasshopper Warbler was a lucky catch with at least two others heard singing from other areas, two returning Chiffchaff ringed on our big Chiff day last August plus a returning Sedge Warbler. It sounded as though there were three Cuckoos singing in the earlier part of the morning.
Sedge Warbler was the leading species of our 12 birds.
Total: 9 (3)
Chiffchaff - 1 (2)
Dunnock - 1
Grasshopper Warbler - 1
Sedge Warbler - 5 (1)
Whitethroat - 1