10th Sept - few sunny spells, cloud increasing showers late pm, moderate, sometimes strong blustery, SSW, 15C

Willey;  Swallows still around village and fields.

Stanford reservoir;  there were many hirundines here this afternoon, maybe as many as 1000, the majority were House Martins, with Sand martins and Swallows too.  Not surprisingly, a Hobby showed up and tried to catch hirundine.  A Red Kite flew over eastwards.

The ringers have been busy this weekend at Stanford reservoir and clearly shows that migration is going on, even though the weather is not brilliant for us and that while birding few birds are sometimes seen.  This weekend they ringed 657 new birds, which included 450 Blackcap and 75 Chiffchaff.   I was lucky to see a handful of Blackcap when birding during this time!