June saw our ringing team hold 22 sessions at 5 sites, including our CES at Thornwick, Bempton village and south landing.
A total of 414 birds were caught with 322 of these being new and 92 re-traps.
The Constant Effort Site at Thornwick was run 3 times catching a total of 74 new birds and 34 more re-traps – these re-traps are fantastic for data, showing us how old birds are, how many times we’ve caught them and when they are breeding. We are seeing great site fidelity from our returning warblers, often they are caught in the same net year on year.
The star bird of the CES so far was an adult Grasshopper warbler caught in our 6th session, Grasshopper warblers are rarely caught at Flamborough, a few pairs do usually breed on the headland, the last one ringed was at South Landing in September 2020.
A Broad-bodied Chaser dragonfly also made its way in to a net at our CES site, some delicate work extracting it and it was soon flying off happily but not before we managed a quick photo!
Other highlights in the month included another Spotted Flycatcher this time at South Landing, 12 Chiffchaff, 11 Lesser Whitethroat, 9 Whitethroat, 3 Blackcap and 155 Starling.
