September 23rd

We spent a bright and breezy morning ringing at Reculver where we saw 1 Green Sandpiper, 1 Common Sandpiper, 2 Grey Herons, 18 Meadow Pipits, 2 Cetti's Warblers, 35 Chiffchaffs, 3 Pied Wagtails, 2 Green Woodpeckers, 60 Swallows W, 1 Grey Wagtail W, 20 Blackcaps, 2 Sparrowhawks, 1 Whitethroat, 6 Mute Swans, 100 House Martins W and 2 Common Buzzards.

Birds ringed 44: Chiffchaff 28, Blackcap 15, Whitethroat 1.

Chiffchaff

 

This afternoon I received the ringing information on an adult male Sedge Warbler we caught out on the Marsh south of  the railway on 13th June this year. It had originally been ringed as a first year bird at Teralfene, Brabant, BELGIUM on 2nd August 2020. Terelfene is 208 km ESE on Reculver.