A short session at the end of the day trying for Reed Buntings. There was much less Reed Bunting activity in the reeds than the last time, possibly due to the damp, foggy conditions, but we put two 18m nets up as we had done before and hoped for birds to drop in well before the light failed.
We tried some other calls early on and established that any Redpolls in the area were not interested in the reed bed. We had seen a pair of Stonechat near the net and playing Stonechat song encouraged the male to investigate and get caught. We managed 21 new Reed Bunting and no birds were already ringed.
There was a flock of Starlings that CL tried to attract to one of the nets, but they chose to drop into the reeds of the old scrape and all evaded the net. DKL tried playing Water Rail in the last 10 minutes before taking both nets down and one was captured.
Total: 29
Blue Tit - 2
Reed Bunting - 21
Robin - 1
Stonechat - 1
Water Rail - 1
Wren - 3