Trapping a Spotted Flycatcher this morning was a real treat - a juvenile and only the second to be caught here in the last 8 years. To say they are a bit scarce would be an understatement. 4th Cetti's Warbler to be caught this year was a cracking adult male so 2 males and 2 juvs - all caught in exactly the same net in the reedbed and so was the one some years ago. Obviously some sort of Cetti's highway.
Hobbies were wheeling about the sky just after 0600 this morning no doubt filling up before heading south. Talking of which, some interesting fat scores today with some whoppers and some with no fat at all. The Nightingale was ringed as an adult male in April 2009, retrapped in May this year and again today. It had hardly any fat so it it may be using Bainton as a refueling stop on it's journeys up and down or it could just be that I didn't catch it again - but over two summers of ringing? I suspect it's not a local bird and just passing through.
Anyway, CES 2010 is now complete. Overall gut feeling its that it's been a better summer with some spp e.g. Linnet doing very well.
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