Our first Whitethroat of the year was just south of the caravan site with a Lesser Whitethroat just outside the recording area in the Customs House grounds. Other migrants today were 2 Blackcap, 2 Wheatear, Buzzard, Chiffchaff, Jay, Redpoll, Redwing, Rook, Swallow & Woodlark which might look an impressive list but its a lot of effort for few birds. On the ringing side the Greenfinch is the first one ringed this year which is a very sad state of affairs when one considers that for two years running in the 1980's over a thousand Greenfinch were ringed just in the month of April alone - how times have not been kind to this once ubiquitous species.
Ringing: 2 Blackcap, 1 Chiffchaff, 1 Greenfinch, 1 Wheatear.