Session: 12/10/2025 07:30 to 11:30.hrs
Present:
JHW,IW,JL,RAD,AB,KMB,DL,NC.
Weather: overcast, calm, cool.
Nets: 36++18+36 metre along nets reed bed
ride, 12M scrub net up from 08:00 to 11:00hrs.
Lures (audio): (BC-CC-FC-GC),(FF-RE),(YB),(SK-LR),(LT) intermittently.Notes: Overcast and calm this week a change after last weekends “gales”.
For the time of year at this site a good total; we ringed elsewhere this time
last year so no matching visit. We had a good number of birds from the net in
the scrub including a Nuthatch, a woodland species and perhaps an indication of
the scrub maturing towards woodland, though we have ringed them here before. We are still ringing Blackcap and Chiffchaff when in recent years by
this time migration has all but stopped and Goldcrest still moving through. It
wasn’t noticed but the Cetti’s Warbler ring number BXF6457 is a control (ringed
elsewhere). It was a female; these are known to disperse from their natal site
this time of year; males also but not so much apparently. We should hear where it is from in the next day or so. FG =age indeterminate
Recaptures: (03)
Cetti’s Warbler ringed: 06/09/2025, 29/09/2025.
Dunnock ringed: 06/10/2024, 05/10/2025
Treecreeper ringed: 13/04/2025
Robin ringed: 04/08/2024
Wren ringed: 12/07/2025
Sightings: Possibly 3 or more Water Rail
squealing from the reeds along the stream. At least two
Grey Wagtail over at nets
down. Otherwise nothing unexpected and we probably missed a few species.