08/11 Snelsmore Common Car Park Feeder

Location: Snelsmore Common Car Park Feeder

Session: 08-Nov-2015 07:30 to 11:15hrs

Weather: Overcast, dull, dank, occasional gusting wind

Present: JL, DL, IW

Nets: 36’ tow 18’ nets, one each side of feeder, up from 07:50 to 11:00 hrs

Lure (feeders): Fat Balls x 1, Black Sunflower x 1, Peanuts x 1.

Capture (New/Recapture) 85:

Blue Tit 33/5	Coat Tit 24/3
Great Tit 14/2	Marsh Tit 2/0
Nuthatch 1/0	Robin 1/0

Recaptures: 10

Blue Tit  169d x 2 one from box CP06, one from CP29; 172d x 3 one from box CP10, one from box CP22 and one from CP24 Coal Tit 1y 2d, 287d Great Tit 1y 173d from Box CP16, 355d

Age Range: 1st winter except

Adult: Blue Tit 2, Coal Tit 3, Great Tit 3

Notes: Nets went up easier than expected for the first autumn visit. First capture one Coal Tit that went in the net while I was putting them up. The next round was 20 birds mostly Coal Tit with a Nuthatch and some Blue & Great Tits. By the time we had processed these, another 25 had been captured, this time more Blue Tits than the others. It then began to quieten down with the next two rounds of four and five tits followed by one Coal Tit. The rest of the session consisted of five single figure captures of mostly Blue Tit and Great Tit. Capturing two Marsh Tits is a bonus; very scarce here these days. Given the outlook, I thought it to be a good ringing session.

Sightings 19 Species: Probably missed a few while ringing.

Blackbird 2 Blue Tit 45 Carrion Crow 3 Chaffinch 6 Coal Tit 30 Goldcrest 3 Great Spotted Woodpecker 2 Great Tit 20 Jay 2 Lesser Black-backed Gull 2

Long-tailed Tit 5 Marsh Tit 2 Mistle Thrush 1 Nuthatch 2 Raven 1 Red Kite 1 Robin 3 Treecreeper 2 Woodpigeon 15