With a team of only two we put up less nets than normal so we just put up two lines in the main patch of scrub and a Meadow Pipit triangle.
It was a stunning flat calm day with blue sky and it must have been about 24 degrees by the end. As often happens late in the season all the birds move at dawn so you get swamped in the first round and then there is nothing for the rest of the morning, though if you have a Meadow Pipit triangle that can add to the morning. Personally, I don’t find this time of year that interesting as two of the most common summer visitors in Chiffchaff and Blackcap are storming back south, so the conservation value of this sort of ringing is not as high as some of our other ringing.
225 new appears to be a good day but it is low compared with this years standards on the Plain and the species diversity is now very low. MP, PA
Blackcap 85 (1), Chiffchaff 78, Meadow Pipit 48, Dunnock 3. Yellowhammer 3, Wren 4, Robin 1, Goldfinch 2, Great Tit 1