NEWBURY RINGING GROUP
NEWS & RINGING SESSION REPORTS
Monday, 16 April 2018
Sunday, 15 April 2018
15/04 Thatcham Marsh LNR
Location: Thatcham
Marsh LNR CES Site
Session:15-Apr-2018 07:30 to
11:00hrs
Overcast, cool, calm, a few spots of rain mid late session
Present:JL, IW, JHW, JPM, GB,
SC
Nets:210metres 108m+90M
reed bed ride and 12M scrub ride up from 08:00 to 10:30hrs
Lure (none ):
Capture (New/Recapture)
Recaptures: (04) recent except:
Cetti’s Warbler ringed 27-Aug-2016
Chiffchaff ringed 03-Jun-2017
Long-tailed Tit ringed 04-Oct-2015
Session:
Headlines: Not a bad session
today, a couple of nice captures: Reed Warbler and Willow Warbler also some of the Chiffchaff that stayed in the trees last week came down low enough for us to process eight birds. Not much sign of birds coming into
breeding condition yet except for male each of: Cetti’s Warbler, Chiffchaff and Long-tailed Tit; no brood patches detected.
Weather: Present:
Nets:
Lure (
Capture (New/Recapture)
14(10/04)
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No
equivalent 2017 session
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Chiffchaff ringed 03-Jun-2017
Long-tailed Tit ringed 04-Oct-2015
Sightings 43 Species: Ian’s list,
no Sedge Warblers, on the reed bed, this week, just the single Reed Warbler, a
couple of Reed Buntings and two or three calling water rail. One of the local
Ravens was quite active stirring up the crows as it flew around calling. Two
Oystercatchers also flew over calling, two of several reported locally this
weekend. A nice end to the morning was when my first Cuckoo of the year flew
over calling as I carried my equipment back from the reed bed.
13/04 Greenham Common
After a walk round the common Thursday produced two Ring Ouzels and a Wheartear so I thought I'd try playing audio lures of them at the western enclosure today. I put up the usual three nets from 08:00 to 10:30hrs with IW and RJC. Needless to say we didn't even get a sniff of either species. Just the usual two birds processed, a blue tit ringed as a pulli on the 09-May-2017 at a nearby Sandleford Copse nest box (A8) and a 09-Jul-2017 ringed Goldcrest. It was a very dark almost twilight morning so when we heard Owls it was not that surprising. We were just about to add to our bird lists when we realised that one of the Iplayers playing Ring Ouzel on repeat had defaulted to sequential.
27 species detected, three Herring Gulls and a couple of Swallows the best birds
27 species detected, three Herring Gulls and a couple of Swallows the best birds
Monday, 9 April 2018
08/04 Thatcham Marsh LNR
Location: Thatcham
Marsh LNR
Session:08-Mar-2018 07:30 to
11:00hrs
overcast, few spits
and spots, calm
Present:JL, JHW, RGS, RDW, IW,
VG, JPM
Nets:210metres in 3 rides, 198M of reed bed ride and 12M of
scrub ride up from 08:00 to 10:30 hrs
Lure (none):
Capture (New/Recapture) Matching visit 09-Apr-2017
Recaptures: (08) others recent
BLUTI 1, ringed 20/06/2017 (Z876088
3j at St Marks)
CETWA 2, ringed 07/09/2014 and 10/09/2017,
GRETI 1, ringed 03/09/2017
LOTTI 1, ringed 02/04/2017
WREN 1, ringed 06/08/2017
The first Sedge Warbler of the 2018 season, probably on stopover before moving north
Session:
Headlines: The rainy weather
just missed us apart from some spits and spots towards the end of the session.
We had quite a good session including the first Sedge Warbler of the season.
Only a few birds showed signs of coming into breeding condition. One good
round of seven birds otherwise just two or three each check. Last year’s
equivalent had a similar total but included more migrant species more confirmation that this year is a late spring.
Weather: Present:
Nets:
Lure (none):
Capture (New/Recapture) Matching visit 09-Apr-2017
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CETWA 2, ringed 07/09/2014 and 10/09/2017,
GRETI 1, ringed 03/09/2017
LOTTI 1, ringed 02/04/2017
WREN 1, ringed 06/08/2017
Cetti's Warbler, a new female on size; no sign of coming into breeding condition yet
Sightings 41 Species: A couple of Swallows
over together with Sedge Warbler, Chiffchaff, Willow Warbler and Blackcap
shows the return of summer migrants to be underway. Diving duck courtship
flights also a feature of the morning.
Saturday, 7 April 2018
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