Good conditions through the morning with lightish NW winds and some cloud cover so perhaps I was expecting a bit more in the nets but we still managed 40 birds including 4 Marsh Warblers, 5 Icterine Warblers, a juvenile Red-backed Shrike, 2 Pied Flycatchers and yesterday’s Thrush Nightingale re-trapped but perhaps more noteworthy was a French ringed Reed Warbler.   A Marsh Harrier and the first Siskin of the autumn flew over the garden.

                A spell of rain arrived at lunchtime heralding a very windy afternoon during which I got a couple of nets open which was certainly made worthwhile by a corking adult male Red-backed Shrike – the bird of the autumn so far!

Totals - 1 White Wagtail / Hvid Vipstjert;  3 Redstart / Roestjert;  1 Blackbird / Solsort;  4 Marsh Warbler / Kaersanger;  2 Reed Warbler / Roersanger;  5 Icterine Warbler / Gulbug;  11 Lesser Whitethroat / Gaerdesanger;  3 Whitethroat / Tornsanger;  1 Garden Warbler / Havesanger;  1 Blackcap / Munk;  1 Chiffchaff / Gransanger;  5 Willow Warbler / Loevsanger;  2 Pied Flycatcher / Broget Fluesnapper;  2 Red-backed Shrike / Roedrygget Tornskad