We assembled this morning for our regular Wednesday session at Belvide, with a small but beautifully put together team, comprising of 4 OAPs and a young whipper snapper!
It became immediately obvious that there had been a decent movement of birds-building on Pete's observation from the previous day that there were lots of Blackcaps about.
We were busy right from the start, and by the time we packed away at 10 am, we had ringed 174 new birds--a brilliant total for our site.Noteworthy among these were; 68 Blackcaps ( Pete was right!); 59 Chiffchaff; 4 Sedge Warbler; 3 Willow Warbler; 2 Reed Warbler and Whitethroat, and 1 each of Goldcrest; Garden Warbler and the two star birds of the day;
This absolutely stunning Lesser Whitethroat and.....
this female Cetti's Warbler--the first for this year. During Saturday's bird race, they reported a possible Cetti's based on one call not too well heard so they didn't count it--I wonder if this was the bird?
We returned home well satisfied, for a cup of Complan and a lie down...........
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