CES Visit 12 26/08/2017

32 birds were caught on our final visit. It was clear to see that the majority of our breeding migrant birds had left our site or maybe we didn't see or hear any apart from Chiffchaff and Blackcap. Common Whitethroat hadn't been caught since visit 10 and the only other migrant apart from Chiff on Visit 11 was a Willow Warbler....so it's confirmation this year again that Chiff's are the first to arrive and last to depart on our site at least.

So the CES season now on our site now comes to a close.....we look forward to next season and hopefully many of our birds will return to breed again.

I'd like to take this opportunity to thank everyone from Lothian Ringing Group who kindly gave up their spare time to come along and help out during the 12 CES visit's.

Species	Total New	Retraps
Blackbird	2
Blackcap	2
Blue Tit	1	2
Bullfinch	2	2
Chiffchaff	3	1
Dunnock	4	2
Goldcrest	2	1
Great Tit		2
Robin	2	1
Song Thrush	1
Wren	1	1
11 Species	20	12

LRG's other CES faired much better on their 12th visit as below with 15 species and 46 birds caught.

Species	Total New	Retraps
Blackcap	4	2
Blue Tit	1	2
Bullfinch	2	1
Chiffchaff	7	2
Common Whitethroat	1
Dunnock	3
Garden Warbler	1
Goldcrest	3	2
Great Tit		1
Long Tailed Tit	1	2
Kingfisher	1
Robin	7
Treecreeper		1
Willow Warbler	1
Wren	1
15 Species	33	13

They also went on to do another 2 extra CES visits to gauge what was still hanging around after the 12 visits were completed. Again like our site only Chiffchaff & Blackcap remained....they were also rewarded with another Kingfisher!

Well worth an extra visit 

Species	Total New	Retraps
Blackcap	4
Blue Tit	2	2
Bullfinch	3	2
Chaffinch	1
Chiffchaff	4	1
Coal Tit	1
Dunnock	2	1
Goldcrest	1	2
Long Tailed Tit	1
Kingfisher	1
Wren	4	1
15 Species	24	9