13/11 Bagnor Cress beds

Location: Bagnor Cress beds
Session: 12-Nov-2015 07:40 to 11:30hrs
Weather: Clear and cool at start then thick fog clearing to sunny periods about mid-way through session
Present: JL, IW, RGS
Nets: 36’, one 18’ net each side of feeders
Lure (feeders): Peanuts, Black Sunflower Seed, Niger Seed
Capture (New/Recapture) 65:

Blue Tit 27/4	Coal Tit 6/0
Dunnock 2/0	Goldfinch 2/0
Great Spotted Woodpecker 1/0	Great Tit 13/3
Greenfinch 1/0	Long-tailed Tit 6/0

Recaptures: 7

Blue Tit: 171d Mount Hill box C05, 173d Snelsmore Common box CP35, 175d Mount Hill box D06x2 Great Tit: 171d box A05, 175d B07 and 294d

Age Range: all 1st winter except:

Adults: Blue Tit 5, Coal Tit 1, Goldfinch 1, Great Tit 1, Greenfinch 1 Indeterminate: Long-Tailed Tit 6

Notes: First session of this winter at the Bagnor feeder. Nets took longer than expected to put up, one had to be adjusted as it was too close to the feeder when I lowered it. First capture one Blue Tit. The next capture was of five including a Coal Tit with quite dark plumage and a bluish tinge to the back but not enough for a continental. The others were blue and great tits including a bird ringed as a pulli. The next round of 14 included a Greenfinch and four more Coal Tits. Normally we capture one occasionally over the winter but we were up to five after the third round on the first visit and by the end of the session six different individuals had been ringed; definitely a good year for this species it seems. More double figure rounds followed that included a Great Spotted Woodpecker, two Dunnocks and Goldfinches. In all six birds ringed as pulli captured and one from late last winter. The penultimate round included six Long-tailed Tits an infrequently captured species in recent times. The last round, when we took the nets down, was of 17 blue and great tits. When visiting the feeder recently flock of redpoll and siskin have been near the feeder but not today. They probably turn up later in the morning to drink after feeding elsewhere; maybe next time.

Sightings 38 Species: Quite busy compared to other sites recently with several species moving through and about including a large flock of corvids. Probably missed a few species while it was thick fog.

Blackbird 3 Blue Tit 40 Buzzard 2 Carrion Crow 10 Chaffinch 6 Coal Tit 8 Dunnock 4 Fieldfare 55 Goldcrest 2 Goldfinch 5 Great Spotted Woodpecker 2 Great Tit 20 Greenfinch 1 Grey Wagtail 1 Jackdaw 60 Jay 2 Lesser Black-backed Gull 7 Lesser Redpoll 4 Little Egret 1

Long-tailed Tit 10 Kingfisher 1 Magpie 2 Mallard 2 Marsh Tit 2 Meadow Pipit 1 Moorhen 1 Nuthatch 2 Pheasant 6 Pied Wagtail 1 Redwing 9 Robin 4 Rook 25 Siskin 3 Skylark 3 Sparrowhawk 2 Starling 11 Woodpigeon 30 Wren 2