Present: IW, JL, JHW.
Weather: Overcast, warm, light breeze; bit of spotting early but no sign of any rain despite the low cloud..
Nets: 48metres 3 Rides, up from 08:00 to 10:30 hrs.
Lures audio: (BC-CC-FC-GC-GW-WH-LW-WO),(W-WC-RT-SF-TP-YW),(GH),(YB),(RT), intermittently.
Sightings:
30+ Swallows all in one
gathering flew North and a bit later 40+ House Martins drifted South. We haven’t
had a Bullfinch here for a while and the Starlings were flying Northwest in double figure
groups. We don’t often see Rabbit here, they tend to remain in cover to avoid
dogs etc. Noted the Black Ants because I have not seen any ants recently, these I saw running up and down a fence post looking for food.
One of today’s Willow Warblers -
a 1st year bird; adults having left soon after young fledged.
Notes: Overcast with low cloud
and a bit of spotting but still warm. Just a steady flow of birds mostly
Blackcaps (8) and Willow Warblers (3). Fewer birds than last year’s matching
visit and less variety.
Also,
should you be wondering why no CES visit 11 report for last weekend, it’s
because we were locked out, not the best experience after getting up at
05:00hrs on Saturday – somebody had added a new lock bypassing the master lock
and apparently it is not the fishermen or BBOWT; hopefully it will be dealt
with by this coming Saturday or we will fail to do a schedule CES visit for the first time in 32 years!
As for recent visit fewer birds about generally.
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