CES season begins

The Constant Effort season begun across the country during the week. Locally, those of us involved seemed to choose Sunday as the better day for ringing activities.

At Priory Country Park, we caught 17 birds in total (retraps in brackets) as follows:

Blackcap 3 (1)
Sedge Warbler 1 (0)
Chaffinch 1 (0)
Garden Warbler 3 (1) - the retrap having been ringed as an adult in 2009
Chiff Chaff 3 (0)
Blackbird 0 (1) - the retrap having been ringed as a juvenile in 2005
Dunnock 0 (1)
Blue Tit 0 (1)
Robin 1 (0)

A little cold today but nice to see summer migrants such as Garden Warbler again (very recently in).

At the Thorns CES, they caught 46 birds (new/retrap) as follows:

Song Thrush (2/0)
Willow Warbler (2/0)
Chiffchaff (5/2)
Long-tailed Tit (3/2)
Wren (2/0)
Whitethroat (3/0)
Blackcap (9/1)
Bullfinch (6/0)
Dunnock (1/2)
Garden Warbler (1/0)
Blue Tit (1/0)
Lesser Whitethroat (1/0)
Great Tit (2/0)
Blackbird (0/1)

Only 11 more visits (each) to go between now & the beginning of September!