Bright and breezy throughout the day with the wind strong enough to be annoying but not strong enough to prevent 62 new birds in the nets with the highlights including a Thrush Nightingale, the first Nuthatch of year to be ringed, 7 Icterine Warblers and a Marsh Warbler in amongst small numbers of common migrants with 13 Whitethroats the most numerous; all three of the recently caught Common Rosefinches were re-trapped through the morning.   The male Red-backed Shrike was still in the garden where a female Sparrowhawk was hunting for a while; overhead a few Tree Pipits, a couple of Greenshank and a Golden Plover were seen.

This morning's totals - 1 White Wagtail / Hvid Vipstjert;  1 Thrush Nightingale / Nattergal;  5 Redstart / Roedstjert;  1 Marsh Warbler / Kaersanger;  1 Reed Warbler / Roersanger;  7 Icterine Warbler / Gulbug;  6 Lesser Whitethroat / Gaerdesanger;  13 Whitethroat / Tornsanger;  7 Garden Warbler / Havesanger;  9 Willow Warbler / Loevsanger;  1 Spotted Flycatcher / Gra Fluesnapper;  3 Pied Flycatcher / Broget Fluesnapper;  1 Nuthatch / Spaetmejse;  1 Starling / Staer;  1 House Sparrow / Graspurv;  3 Tree Sparrow / Skovspurv;  1 Linnet / Tornirisk

Nuthatch

Swallow over the fields to the north of the station

                A walk north of the station in the afternoon didn’t produce anything unusual but the whole area seemed to be full of birds with at least 8 Marsh Harriers and a Buzzard were floating around, every garden had a few Spotted Flycatchers, Pied Flycatchers, Redstarts, Willow Warblers, Whitethroats etc. and every cut field had a few Yellow Wagtails and hundreds of Swallows and Sand Martins feeding low over the open areas.

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