Bright and breezy
throughout the day with the wind strong enough to be annoying but not strong
enough to prevent 62 new birds in the nets with the highlights including a Thrush Nightingale, the first Nuthatch
of year to be ringed, 7 Icterine
Warblers and a Marsh Warbler in
amongst small numbers of common migrants with 13 Whitethroats the most
numerous; all three of the recently caught Common
Rosefinches were re-trapped through the morning. The male Red-backed Shrike was still in the garden where a female
Sparrowhawk was hunting for a while; overhead a few Tree Pipits, a couple of
Greenshank and a Golden Plover were seen.
A walk north of the station in the afternoon didn’t
produce anything unusual but the whole area seemed to be full of birds with at
least 8 Marsh Harriers and a Buzzard were floating around, every garden had a
few Spotted Flycatchers, Pied Flycatchers, Redstarts, Willow Warblers,
Whitethroats etc. and every cut field had a few Yellow Wagtails and hundreds of
Swallows and Sand Martins feeding low over the open areas.
Two sharp pictures out of hundreds taken of the low flying Swallows
Adult Spotted Flycatcher showing really obvious moult contrasts in the tertials
Nuthatch
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