Autumnal berries and birds today. With only nettles still growing in the net rides at this time of year, clearing them is much easier and less time consuming than slashing through reeds and hemlock water dropwort in the height of summer. A Meadow Pipit tape lure proved productive with 20 birds piling into a net on the margin of the reed bed.
59 new birds were processed: 6 Blackcap, 3 Blue Tit, 2 Bulfinch, 1 Cetti’s Warbler, 23 Chiffchaff including 1 UK control, 2 Goldcrest, 1 Greenfinch, 20 Meadow Pipit and 1 Wren.
The Early Worm 