With only two of us available to run the CES session we were lucky to be able to get one of Matt's young trainees Noah to join along with his parents who were happy to do the scribing which helped us speed things along.
I had arrived on site super early 2 hours before daylight to set some nets for migrant Nightjar's but none appeared for the second session running.
The first net round produced a record 9 Whinchat's out of the 'chat' net and this was followed up with 7 new tree Pipit's along with one retrap from last week, the fist retrap of this species we're ever caught at this site.
Good numbers of the common warbler species were the main feature of the morning but we still only got one Lesser Whitethroat, no Redstart's and the only Grasshopper Warbler was one that sang briefly at dawn but avoided the nets. Normally we would be catching good numbers of all these species but this year they are virtually absent.
The best bird of the morning came from the chat net in the form of a Wheatear which is something we only average one of every other year.
A reasonably busy morning with 166 new and 21 retraps was a good morning but well below average for the time of year. GD, PD, NW
Stock Dove 1 pulli, Green Woodpecker (1), Swallow 6 pulli, Tree Pipit 7(1), Wren 3(1), Dunnock 3(1), Robin 10, Whinchat 10, Wheatear 1, Blackbird 5(1), Sedge Warbler 9, Reed Warbler 3, Lesser Whitethroat 1, Whitethroat 38(4), Garden Warbler 11(3), Blackcap 23(4), Chiffchaff 6(1), Willow Warbler 18(1), Blue Tit 1(1), Great Tit 2, Bullfincg 4(2), Yellowhammer 2, Reed Warbler 2