This morning Ian and I had decided to split up and concentrate on two different coastal areas of the 'obs' from both a ringing and migration monitoring perspective. However, I had a disastrous start to the morning when I got my car stuck on a bridge across a large ditch (don't ask!). This resulted in a phone call to Ian at 5.00 a.m.to ask him if he would be kind enough to come along and drag me off the bridge with his 4 x 4. For one reason or another Ian couldn't 'work' the coastal site he had in mind and headed to one of the 'obs' reedbeds and ringed a nice selection of warblers. See
Fleetwood Bird Observatory for details.
Eventually Huw and I erected a short length of nets at our site and only managed to ring 5 birds; a
Wren, 3
Willow Warblers, a
Reed Warbler and 2
Blue Tits. It was very quiet and there were few grounded migrants around other than a few extra
Willow Warblers in addition to those we ringed.
Willow Warbler
'Vis' was equally quiet with just a
Swift over and 6
Snipe. We packed up after a short while and joined Ian in the reedbeds.
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