Notes: Since last Sunday’s session somebody has stolen one of the insitu guy ropes and peg. Can’t think what use a length of some dirty weathered cord and a grubby wooden peg would be to them; I suppose they took them because they could - fortunately we had some spares with us. A good start to the Constant Effort Site season included a Garden Warbler as above. Many of the migrant species have yet to come into breeding condition, some are probably on their way through to sites elsewhere. Notable for the time of year are a few more Dunnocks than we usually get on the reed bed also the Great Tits that included a July 2022 ringed individual.
Recaptures: (19)Sightings: It was a little quite bird-wise apart from some noisy Jays foraging in
the scrub. A few Swift detected high up drifting about and no hirundines seen
for the second week running. Two Common Terns flew over towards Lower Farm
calling, and a group of three Little Egrets flew northeast from the direction
of Lower Farm. The Bank Vole ran across the track near our ringing station and
the Muntjac ran down the edge of the scrub quite close to us; use to humans being
about it seemed. A female Mallard with about five quite mature ducklings in tow
ran across the track; fewer surviving ducklings than last week.
