Thursday 10 May 2012

A better day at Waxham

Following two flunks at Waxham over the past few weeks (catching about 5 birds a trip), yesterday was much more successful. As well as quite a few new birds it was nice to get a good number of returning willow warblers and whitethroats caught in previous years. We also spring trapped a wheatear and a nice male stonechat. While attempting to spring trap wheatears we also found this nice juvenile Pallid Harrier flying over the ringing site!

Total 36 new (19 retraps)
First summer Pallid Harrier over Waxham.
Wheatear 1
Stonechat 1
Blackbird  1
Robin (2)
Dunnock 3 (1)
Wren 1
Blackcap 3
Whitethroat 12 (4)
Willow Warbler 4 (6)
Chiffchaff  5
Great Tit 1 (2)
Blue Tit (1)
Long-tailed Tit  (3)
Goldfinch 4
Chaffinch 2