CES Visit 8 Sunday 17th July 2016

     

Looking at the  majority of weather sites yesterday they were all predicting the wind to be around 14mph gusting to 28mph. However as we set our nets up in a valley our site is pretty sheltered from SSW winds most of the time especially where our nets are set up. We were contemplating calling it off on Saturday night having let our distance travellers know that there would be a chance that this visit may not take place, they could then relish in the fact that they would get their Sunday morning lie-in after all. It was then decided that Alan and I would meet just after 5am to see whether it would be viable to continue with setting our nets up. After a quick walk around the site we decided that we were going to escape the worst of the wind knowing it wouldn't have any adverse effect on our nets. We then erected our nets, stepping up the timing between net rounds alleviated any concerns we may have had as all our nets were undisturbed between the scrub and trees. 

We quickly knew that after a few rounds we weren't going to achieve the amount of birds that we had caught the previous week on Visit 7. The total for todays session as you can see below was lower but not for Chiffchaff we were 5 up on last weeks total with 13 new Juveniles caught 1 re-trap Juvenile from an earlier session this season and 1 re-trap from 2015. 

Visit 8 last year produced 49 birds.

Although the previous 7 sessions we had managed to catch adults, we were graced with our first 2 Juvenile Bullfinch of the season along with what we presume was their mother in the same net, which we had caught on an earlier visit.

Species	Total New	Retraps
Blackbird	1
Blackcap	1
Blue Tit	2
Bullfinch	2	1
Chiffchaff	13	2
Dunnock	2
Great Tit	1
Song Thrush	1
Treecreeper		1
Whitethroat	1
Wren	3	1
11 Species	27	5