30/07 Greenham Common

Location: Greenham Common Western Enclosure wk31

Session: 30/07/2024 07:30 to 10:50hrs

Notes: Few migrants about, Willow Warbler and Garden Warbler numbers are poor. They should be near their peak migration week 29 to 32. Nice to re-trap a Dartford Warbler ringed here as a juvenile 25/07/2023 presumed to be from a nest nearby. It was in full wing moult and looked a bit dishevelled for a normally smart looking bird.

Present: JL,IW.

Weather: bright sunny clear, calm, hot.

Nets: 48metres 3 Rides, up from 08:00 to 10:30 hrs.

Lures audio: (Warbler), (Misc Migrants), (RT), (GH) intermittently.

Sightings: Swifts picked up in the background as we followed the Swallow just above the tree

line going west. Given the hot sunny weather Butterflies and Dragonflies on the wing were few.