Almost the polar opposite to yesterdays weather, the warm and sunny morning was quite conducive for watching migrants it seems. The first garden warbler of the year was recorded, at least 10 willow warblers were onsite, with a singing chiffchaff and the first singing blackcap for a few days and still more lesser whitethroats trickling through. Wheatear numbers were up again, to 8 birds at least, and we had a redpoll species fly south and a greenfinch treat us with a bit of song early morning. It's quite sobering that at a site that used to ring 2000 greenfinch a year, it's now a pleasant surprise to have a single bird singing.
V-Pug has two generations per year with the first being much smaller than the later emergence.
Birds Ringed: Blackbird 2, Blackcap 2, Chiffchaff 1, Garden Warbler 1, Lesser Whitethroat 2, Robin 1, Willow Warbler 7, Wren 1.