A month of quality over quantity with only 5 sessions being run over 2 sites.
A total of 114 birds were caught with 99 of these being new and 15 re-traps.
Work parties were held to prepare our sites ready for the autumn migration, including cutting some new rides and tidying existing ones.
A good spell of easterly winds saw an arrival of migrants arriving on the headland, with our ringers amazingly catching 11 Yellow-browed Warblers through the month with the first one being on the 19th, we usually see these delightful birds from the end of September in to October.
Yellow-browed Warblers breed in Siberian taiga forests and pass through the UK when migrating south west for winter.
Another lovely surprise for our ringing team was a single Tree Pipit caught at south landing, whilst Tree pipits are seen regularly on migration over the headland we very rarely catch them, the last one being in 2020.
Tree Pipits are a summer visitor to the Uk, breeding in forest edges and clearings. The UK population fell sharply at the end of the 20th century and they are now a red-listed bird. Tree Pipits winter in the humid zone of West Africa, data is showing that migrant birds who winter here are suffering the largest population declines.
The typical lifespan over a Tree Pipit is 2 years although the maximum age shown from recapture of a ringed bird is 6 years and 7 months, (however this was in 1938 when perhaps there were less pressures on our birds).
