With ideal weather conditions of a gentle north-westerly breeze and cloudy skies for standardised ringing today, we had our hopes up for good numbers of birds, and we were not disappointed. With a busy first few nets rounds we had Hans lending a hand, and thanks to birds continuing to move through the garden for most of the day we closed the nets in the evening with 209 birds ringed. Whitethroats and Willow Warblers made up the bulk of birds (45 and 44 respectively) with Garden Warblers close behind on 39. 12 Pied Flycatchers and a whopping 20 Redstarts were caught too - always a pleasure to ring. The high numbers of birds meant we had our fingers crossed for something rarer to appear too but it never transpired - tomorrow perhaps. The Barred Warbler was retrapped later in the day however, and found to have put on an impressive 6.5g since it was first caught.

Today's totals were as follows:

Tree Pipit/Skovpiber - 5, Dunnock/Jernspurv - 2, Redstart/Rødsjert - 20, Marsh Warbler/Kærsanger - 3, Reed Warbler/Rørsanger - 1, Icterine Warbler/Gulbug - 6, Lesser Whitethroat/Gærdesanger - 19, Whitethroat/Tornsanger - 45, Garden Warbler/Havesanger - 39, Blackcap/Munk - 4, Chiffchaff/Gransanger - 2, Willow Warbler/Løvsanger - 44, Spotted Flycatcher/Grå Fluesnapper - 1, Pied Flycatcher/Broget Fluesnapper - 12, Starling/Stær - 1, Tree Sparrow/Skovspurv - 2, Goldfinch/Stillits - 3.

One of today's good number of Pied Flycatchers