A better day ... for weather!. Got to the park just as the Jackdaws decided to leave ... noisily. An adult pair of Sparrs annoying the residents of the Rough for some time. Jim Crow saw off Mr Sparr eventually and Mrs Sparr decided to try and tear down one of my nets at high speed. (Ha, ha, the noisy Blackbird was in my hand!). 4 Swifts & 1 H.Martin overhead, but 100+ Smarties over the main lake. A lot of Woodpecker traffic.
Todays catch consisted of: 1 juv.Whitethroat, 1 juv. Lesser 'throat (another in bush) in heavy PJ moult, i juv.Blackcap, 1 juv Song Thrush (makes 8 STs caught this year so far - amazing), 2 juv. Garden Warblers and a female giving up the nesting game, a mummy Chiff in moult, 8 Reed Warblers all told, 6 juv. Robins and a male and a 1st summer male Blackbird that doesn't know the right way to moult!.
Best surprise of the day - a juvenile Nightingale - that hadn't started its PJ moult. That means it hadn't come very far at all. The Les. 'throat is the first since August 2004; the N'gale is the first since June 2003.
Two family parties of Goldfinches zooming about and sitting on the thistles, but no joy (anyway, I can catch them as easy as pie at home first thing - and they're the same ones).
Took some pikkies of various birds.
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