CES Visit 9 Sunday 24th July 2016

Visit 9 is now our best catch, we ended this session on 55. We have beaten our previous total for a session this season so far, our record was up until now 51 caught on visit 7. Last year visit 9 produced 38 so well up on last years too. Again, the most abundant species caught on this visit was Chiffchaff with another 10 caught, 8 new which were all juveniles, this brings our juvenile Chiff to 45 compared to our lowest number of any juvenile caught on site this season, 2 Willow Warbler!

Only our 2nd juvenile Willow Warbler of the season so far.

The weather from 05.30 until around 11.00 was overcast with very little wind, then a light shower of rain come over the valley, we hurriedly checked the nets, fortunately it only lasted around 5 minutes, along with this shower it also brought our largest catch on a single net round for a long time with 21 birds caught, a flock of juvenile Blue & Great Tits were amongst the catch, which most certainly boosted the amount of birds caught on the day to bring us to our new total. We packed our nets up around 12.30 just before the rain decided to set in for the rest of the afternoon.

	Total New	Retraps
Blackbird	1	1
Blackcap	4
Blue Tit	3	3
Bullfinch	3
Chiffchaff	8	2
Dunnock	4
Great Tit	8
Robin	5	1
Song Thrush	1
Treecreeper		1
Whitethroat	4
Willow Warbler	1
Wren	4	1
13 Species	46	9

Lothian Ringing Group run 2 Constant Effort Sites. Visit 9 totals from our longest running CES (1991) also had their best session of the season so far today. 

Species	Total	Retraps
Blackbird	3
Blackcap	17
Blue Tit	1
Bullfinch	6
Coal Tit	1
Chiffchaff	10
Dunnock	4
Great Tit	3
Kingfisher	2
Robin	4
Songthrush	1
Whitethroat	1
Willow Warbler	5
Wren	1
14 Species	59