LP visited Shooters Bottom area this morning but only had small numbers of migrants but this did include our first Tree Pipits for the year. John Marchant was ringing in Whitbread Hollow, had a small fall of Willow Warblers with a selection of other night migrants. The combined totals for both sites are shown below, with the number of birds ringed are shown in brackets:
Sparrowhawk 1
Great-spotted Woodpecker 1
Swift 10
Swallow 5
Sand Martin 12
Meadow Pipit 10 S
Tree Pipit 3
Yellow Wagtail 1
Nightingale 2 calling Hollow
Song Thrush 2
Grasshopper Warbler 1
Sedge 5 (3)
Reed Warbler 20 (9)
Garden Warbler 16 (9)
Blackcap 16 (6)
Lesser Whitethroat 3 (2)
Common Whitethroat 35 (11)
Chiffchaff 4
Willow Warbler 53 (31)
Long-tailed Tit 2
Jay 1
Greenfinch 2
Clouded Yellow 5
Hummingbird Hawk Moth 4 during the evening of the 6th.
