It was 6:15 a.m. when Gail and I arrived on site this morning at the Nature Park, and it was flat calm with clear skies. The weather was great from a being outside in the great outdoors perspective, but we knew that it wouldn't produce any birds. As I often say on here, it was a clear-out type of morning, and I knew it would be a short ringing session, and it will be a short blog post!
Out in the reedbed and scrub there seemed to be a little more water than when we checked the site a couple of weeks ago, but it was still possible to get the nets up, and we just put up nets 1 and 2. The only bird we ringed was a male Chiffchaff, but at least we didn't blank.
Cetti's Warblers were in fine voice this morning, with their explosive song coming from all over the site. It sounded to me that there were five singing males this morning, though they can be difficult to survey as they can be very mobile. The only other warbler species we had was a couple of singing Chiffchaffs.
Visible migration was virtually non-existent with just a handful of high-flying Meadow Pipits heading north. At one point all the Gulls got up to the west of us and they were alarm calling frantically, and I thought they had likely found a Marsh Harrier or Osprey on migration, but I couldn't see anything.
And that really is it! The forecast is still the same, with an Atlantic weather front set to come in on Monday, and depending on the timing of this weather front, it might drop some birds in.
reedbed, and it was my first for the spring
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