2nd August 2013 Whitbread Hollow cloud variable 1/8 – 6/8, thunderstorm but no rain early on. Very light SW wind, very humid.

RDME went ringing in the hollow where there had been a small arrival of migrants that included the first Nightingale of the Autumn. PN visited the top seeing a Hobby and two Clouded Yellows. Birds ringed in brackets.

 

Hobby 1
Swift 50
Great Spotted Woodpecker 2

Nightingale 1 (1)

Song Thrush 2 (1)

Reed Warbler 3 (3)

Whitethroat 1 (1)

Blackcap 10 (3)

Chiffchaff 1 (1)

Willow Warbler 15 (7)

Bullfinch 2

 

Small Copper 1

Chalk hill Blue 30

Common Blue 2

Comma 1

Dark Green Fritillary 1
Clouded Yellow 2