CES Visit 9 04/08/2018

With thoughts on our mind that some juveniles will be dispersing from site along with adult birds, it looked as though Visit 8 was going to be our biggest catch during the 2018 season. This proved correct as on this Visit (9) we were back down on numbers with this visit only producing 30 birds.

However, as I said at the beginning of this summary, we had very nice unexpected guests turn up on this visit. Our first 3/4 rounds produced the usual suspects Bullfinch, Chiffchaff, Wrens etc...What we were not expecting is a bird to appear that hasn't been caught on site for 11 years (Lesser Whitethroat). I know a lot of Constant Effort Sites may have these breeding in abundance but there is definitely a lack of the them appearing on any of the Lothian Sites. Catching a female and two juveniles makes us wonder if they were breeding on site and if they have they've most certainly went under the radar, the more likely explanation this far on into the season is that they may have dispersed from breeding nearby and passing through, nonetheless it was great to have them caught on site again.

First Lessser Whitethroats caught since 2007 (2 Juveniles)

Adult 

Species	Total New	Retraps
Blackcap	1	2
Blue Tit	1	2
Bullfinch	3	1
Chiffchaff	3	3
Coal Tit	1
Common Whitethroat	3
Great Tit	1	1
Lesser Whitethroat	3
Robin	1	1
Willow Warbler	1
Wren	1	1
11 Species	19	11