Wing moult - adult Whitethroat
Fault barring - young Whitethroat
Young Willow Warbler - a season's first
(Second brood) Juvenile Robin in PJ moult
Now for some detail - 7-8 oktas and v.light W. wind
Wren - 0/4/0, Robin - 0/2/1 (all 3/3J), Dunno - 0/0/1 (a 3),
Blabi - 0/1/0 (late brood), Sonth - 0/2/0, our first Js for '08,
Reewa - 1/2/0 all undergoing BM, Leswh - 0/1/0 first J for '08,
White - 1/5/0, a good catch today, Garwa - 1/1/1,
The retrap was first ringed as a 1J last year. It was carrying
Fat 50 ESF and weighed 24.0 gm (which flagged a warning on IPMR)
Blaca - 0/2/0, Chiff - 0/3/0 another brood on the move?,
Wilwa - 1/3/0 (DK said there were 5!) local or incomers?,
Bluti - 0/1/0, Greti 0/1/0,
Grefi 0/2/0 (one of each), Goldf - 0/1/0, the first for '08.
No trainees today, so had a slow start putting up the new nets.
Stuck a 40 ft round the back later and had 6 birds here.
It rained heavily as I was taking down - now suffering with back ache!
A very good day, all in all; nice to catch more than 20 birds!
Migration under way; reports of large congregations of Wilwas "up north" and of the "last" Swifts moving out from colonies today. Some Houmas going south too.
Sedwa and Reewa moving on south coast.
All up figures for PCP so far this year are:-
425 new + 137 pulli = 562 and 269 retraps/sightings of 27 spp.
CES (NFY, new for year) 121 adults + 122 juvs of 24 spp.
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