We have been trying to run a session here for a while but as access is difficult during the week and every weekend seems to have been breezy, we had not managed it. So with a potential gap in the wind and rain we got there on Sunday, the wind was stronger than forecast but we put up all the usual nets and had 5 mp3 lures playing: three playing warblers, one Linnet and one Tree Pipit (August being peak passage month for Tree Pipit). Overall the site was quiet and although we caught more warblers than other species the numbers were generally low with only 4 Blackcaps in the 44 birds we finished on. The same weekend last year we had 13 Blackcaps in the catch. The other mp3s were successful, one producing a single male Linnet in the middle of its main moult and the other 3 Tree Pipits. It is unusual to get a Tree Pipit in any year so to get 3 on one day was nice.
Kev
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Linnet (KJH)
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Tree Pipit (KJH)
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