Nets up 5.30 to 11.00
540 feet
Weather warm slight breeze southerly
Jennie,Sandra and I were joined by Ephraim back home for a holiday from his post of assistant warden on Bardsey. A calm bright morning of 86 birds consisting mainly of reed warblers and blackcaps. Chiffs were a little bit scarcer than last week. We did come across three birds in full moult so the season is progressing. Bird of the day was an adult female common tern which flew into net ride one as we were extracting luckily, as no doubt it would have extracted itself.
Johne
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| Adult female common tern |
Total captures were as follows:
New
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Retrap
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Blackcap
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9
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2
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Blue tit
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5
|
1
|
Chiffchaff
|
6
|
1
|
Common Tern
|
1
|
|
Dunnock
|
1
|
|
Great Tit
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1
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1
|
Reed Bunting
|
2
|
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Reed Warbler
|
18
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12
|
Robin
|
7
|
1
|
Sedge Warbler
|
6
|
1
|
Song Thrush
|
1
|
|
Wren
|
8
|
1
|
Whitethroat
|
1
|
|
64
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22
|
Insects around today included Brown Hawker, Cinnebar moth caterpillars and "Blood-sucker" beetles Rhagonycha fulva called that because of their colour, they do not suck blood. Thanks to Jenny for the photos.
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| Cinnebar moth caterpillars |
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| Rhagonycha fulva |
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| Comma butterfly |
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