Over the border but quite interesting A very late migrant, caught and ringed at Chew Valley Lake this morning a Lesser Whitethroat! Our previous latest date for this species was 24 Sept in 2005. It was possibly trying to avoid the conflict zone in the Middle East, their usual migration south takes them around the Eastern Mediterranean.
Hi Julian, Measurements were taken and interestingly although the long P2 doesn’t fit for blythi the measurements for primaries 6, 7 and 8 are within the blythi range and out of the curruca range! We have a couple of small body feathers (not deliberately pulled out!!)that we are going to try to get DNA from hopefully.
