Busy morning for Mick and myself at Durlston NNR
103 new birds with no retraps from just 3 nets caught within a fairly short time frame of 6.30-9.00
Conditions became fairly windy so we shut up the nets as soon as we emptied them. The wind didn't seem to affect the birds as they were heard and seen all around the
surrounding vegetation for some time.
Loads of Meadow Pipits also passing over but as we needed to shut the nets to process what we had we didn't get the
opportunity to catch and ring any
Totals included
Chiffchaff 79
Willow Warbler 3
Blackcap 18
Whitethroat 1
Robin 1
Wren 1
To date the annual race between newly ringed Chiffs and Willows stands in favour of the later with 622 Willows compared to 175 Chiffs. However as we can see from this mornings total Chiffs are now starting to dominate, so who knows what is yet to come.
Posted by Simon Breeze
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