CES 2 - an excellent start to the season - highest number and Cetti's confirmed as breeding

Sunday 17th May 2020

Stu, Dave, Joe and James.  Usual nets.  Weather perfect at start - mild, overcast, still - a bit breezy towards last hour.  Great dawn chorus.

Birds ringed:

Bullfinch 2/0; Robin 0/1;  Reed Bunting 5/1;  Cetti's Warbler 2/0;  Sedge Warbler 6/5;  Blackbird 1/1; Chiffchaff 3/1;  Blue Tit 3/1;  Lesser Whitethroat 3/0;  Great Tit 2/0;  Dunnock 1/0;  Long-tailed Tit 0/1;  Garden Warbler 2/0;  Reed Warbler 3/2;  Song Thrush 1/0;  Willow Warber 1/0;  Linnet 3/0;  Blackcap 2/0;  Whitethroat 1/0

Total birds:  54


2019: 40 2018: 52; 2017: 36; 2016: 53; 2015: 28;  2014:33