SEPTEMBER RINGING TOTALS 2024

1st year Icterine Warbler

This month was a lot more exciting than last September, with 2 species ringed that hadn't been seen here in several years, and one control species (red-breasted flycatcher) ringed in Denmark this year, though we have yet to get the exact location. A year to the day that we caught our last, a wryneck was the first notable scarce bird of the month on 2nd, followed 5 days later by an Icterine warbler, and later in the month a barred warbler. The 7th of the month was a notable day, with more spotted flycatchers ringed in one day than we have in the whole year. Tree pipits have had a better year here, with 4 in this month alone.  A wood warbler ringed on the same day as the wryneck was notably late, though not our latest. 

As a whole, numbers wise we were 124 birds down on September 2023, most of which can be explained by the poor meadow pipit numbers moving so far. Just 14 ringed this year compared to 127 at the same time in '23. Woodpigeon numbers are also pathetic, with only 3 juveniles even seen on the reserve, let alone ringed, and 2 in the whole month was unexpected. 

Chiffchaff and willow warbler numbers were better than last years however, and garden warbler seems almost abundant, with 8 ringed this month alone, and more previously. Cetti's continue their inexorable march, with 5 new birds ringed this month, on top of juveniles fledged here ringed earlier in the year. Before last year, there had only been 16 birds ringed here in the observatories lifetime. 

Chiffchaff	81
Blackcap	55
Willow Warbler	28
Robin	24
Grey wagtail	24
Reed warbler	17
Meadow pipit	14
Pied flycatcher	11
Spotted flycatcher	9
Garden warbler	8
Lesser whitethroat	8
Blue tit	6
Song Thrush	6
Great Tit	5
Whitethroat	5
Dunnock	5
Cetti's warbler	5
Sparrowhawk	5
Redstart	4
Sedge warbler	4
Tree pipit	4
Blackbird	3
Wren	2
Goldfinch	2
Woodpigeon	2
Chaffinch	1
Goldcrest	1
Siskin	1
Icterine Warbler	1
Reed Bunting	1
Wryneck	1
Wood warbler	1
Starling	1
Barred warbler	1
Total	346