Attenborough CES Visit 5 - Saturday 17 June

The fifth CES visit of the season to Attenborough was carried out on Saturday by Gary, Sue, Pete S and me. The forecast was for a hot weekend but I decided to go for Saturday as there was some early cloud forecast and Sunday was going to be even hotter. Fortunately the forecast was right and for the first couple of hours we had some broken cloud before the sun came out in full force and with little breeze it was hot. For the last hour we had to move the base under the trees to get out of the sun, despite the increased threat of mosquitoes in the shade! 

 

The catching rate started quite briskly and did not drop off as much as expected with the full sun. It was nice to catch a juvenile Kingfisher on what proved to be a bit of a Wren day. We finished with a very respectable 54 birds processed (43 new/11 retrap) made up of: Kingfisher 1/0, Blackbird 2/2, Song Thrush 2/1, Wren 11/2, Dunnock 1/2, Robin 1/0, Reed Warbler 3/0, Sedge Warbler 0/2, Blackcap 8/0, Chiffchaff 5/0, Blue Tit 2/1, Great Tit 2/0, Chaffinch 2/0, Bullfinch 2/1, Reed Bunting 1/0. The oldest retraps were from 2016.

 

Kev

 

 (S. Lakeman)