At last a day offering good mist-netting weather, unfortunately it proved to be of no help in producing a good catch. Last year at this site on this day, with the same nets, we caught 83 birds including 20 Blackcap, 20 Chiffchaff and 15 Reed Warblers along with 22 resident species. Can’t be sure about recent low catches here and elsewhere, but along with degrading habitat I think it has been a terrible breeding season, at least locally. Today we had a catch of just 22 birds including just 4 Blackcaps, 8 Chiffchaffs, 1 Reed Warbler and just 5 resident species. Based on recent catches the coming winter looks as though it may be difficult to catch many resident species at our sites.
Kev
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