22/01 Snelsmore Common Feeder

Location: Snelsmore Common Feeder

Session: 22-Jan-2017 07:45 to 11:20hrs

Headlines: It was a lot colder than I expected today. The capture was slow, a few each round. Two Blue Tits from the same brood (still together) is notable and a Nuthatch pulli is also good. As with the Greenham Feeder robin seems to have zoned in; interestingly they were adults that we captured, one 4years 65days from ringing and not recaptured in the interim. It is a bit of an event this year when we exceed the capture of the matching 2016 visit we even exceeded, just, the Blue Tit total.

Weather: Cold hard frost calm bright sun when it rose above the tree line.

Present: JL, IW, DL

Nets: 12metres a 6 metres net each side of feeders up from 08:05 to 11:00hrs

Lure (feeder): Fat Ball, Black Sunflower, Niger, Peanut.

Capture (New/Recapture)

34 (20/14)	Matching 2016 visit 23/01 28(13/15)
Species code New Rtp 1stCY CY5 2ndCY BLUTI 9 9 10 8 COATI 2 5 7 GRETI 2 3 3 2 NUTHA 1 1 ROBIN 1 2 3	Species code New Rtp 1stCY CY5 2ndCY BLUTI 8 8 14 2 COATI 1 2 1 2 GRETI 2 1 1 LOTTI 3 3 Indeterminate NUTHA 1 Indeterminate

Recaptures: 14 Blue Tit 1y 247d pulli from box CP24, 338d, 313d, 235d two pulli from Box WH25 Great Tit 1y 75d, 239d pulli from WH09 Nuthatch 254d pulli from Box CP07, Robin 4y 65d, 329d
Sightings 25 Species: There was a good movement of gulls flying south early that included some Common Gulls. A female sparrowhawk chased a magpie across the road in from to Duncan just before he arrived. Otherwise normal stuff