Wilstone CES 1 2021

Crew JT, EM,lC, CM and PD. The first CES for Wilstone reservoir 2021. Cold start at 5.am with not a breath of wind. Nets up efficiently, expectations high. First bird out of the bag not surprisingly,a Reed warbler. Ring number starts with a number . Ok read it again! 8266230. Ok. What is the address. Answer Paris. Nice one Ian. Six birds later it's Calums turn ...4Y02572, address San Sebastian. Which is in the Basque district of Spain on the Atlantic coast .We have had one of our Sedge warblers recovered there recently . Not finished though in the same net 6 ,another Reed warbler from the Paris scheme!!!. So now the wait to find out the where and when. The west coast of France flyway l suppose and some where on the north east coast of Spain. The total for the morning was 48 birds, 26 new and 19 retraps plus 3 controls. A species total of 10. We had 2 returning Blackcaps and 2 Reed warblers. A Cettis warbler male was trapped for the fifth session this year,so l am hoping that we will be seeing some offspring from him as 3 females have already been caught on site.The total for Session one of 48 is the third best of the last 10 years , 49 in 2015 and 55 in 2012. This year we have a new trainee Peter Dobson who lives in Tring and also Alana Stilbeck who hails from Aylesbury who is hoping to return to ringing having just moved into the area.