On the second day after our trip to Borrow Pit we were due to visit the Crop Field, but as there were only three of us we decided to stay around the Discovery Hut.
29th August
We managed a further 76 encounters of which 48 were new birds and 28 retraps. We had half expected a good catch of chiffchaffs, and we were not disappointed with 13 new birds and 11 retraps, but we also had a good number of sedge warblers and a few reed warblers too. The highlight was probably the four swallows. We don't normally have a roost of swallows on the Wetlands, or any nesting birds so they are quite an unusual catch for us unless they are feeding low over the reeds as they were today.
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| Robin and Adrian hard at work. |
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| One of the swallows. |
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| Careful reading of the ring number |
One of which had quite dramatic fault bars on its tail.
Species New Birds Subsequent Encounters
Blackbird 1
Blue Tit 7 4
Cetti's warbler 2
Chiffchaff 13 11
Dunnock 1
Great Tit 2
Reed Warbler 4 5
Robin 4 1
Sedge Warbler 10 3
Swallow 4
Willow Warbler 4
