We arrived at about 5.30pm, ready to get three doubles up in preparation for when the temperature would drop later. The first thing to happen was an observation of one of the juvenile Marsh harriers wing tagged close by. There were other untagged young birds hunting over the fields and a second nest, possibly serviced by the same male, clearly wasn't far away.
The farmer had cut the vegetation around the lagoons and it was easy work getting the nets up. We started catching shortly after 6pm with quite a few Acros including some Reed Warblers from previous years with two from 2023 and three from 2024. We've not worked this site in the evening before and were surprised to see good numbers of Pied Wagtails roosting in the two lagoons either side of one of our nets. Later, Swallow numbers started to build up and they also dropped in to roost in the reeds in good numbers.
Total: 47 (6)
Blackbird - 1
Blackcap - 7
Cetti's Warbler - 1
Dunnock - 1
Greenfinch - 2
Pied Wagtail - 2
Reed Warbler - 4 (6)
Sedge Warbler - 4
Sand Martin - 1
Swallow - 22
Whitethroat - 2