Tuesday 21 March 2017

21/03 Bagnor Feeder

Location: Bagnor Feeder
Session: 21-Mar-2017 07:10 to 10:45hrs
Headlines: The last scheduled winter visit and better than might be expected given recent captures. A flock of Greenfinches made up the numbers; otherwise it would have been long session. Last years session has a very different species profile and starkly demonstrates the lack of Blue and Great Tit. This is probably the last visit here until next winter and maybe the last visit as the field is up for sale and if it returns to agriculture, access may not be possible even if permission is.
Weather: Bright, sunny, cold wind, increasing as the session progressed
Present: JL. IW, DL
Nets: 12metres, one 6m net each side of feeder up from 07:30 to 10:30hrs
Lure (feeder): Peanuts, Black Sunflower, Fat balls, Niger
Capture (New/Recapture)
10(8/2)
32(20/12) matching session 16-Mar-2016
Species    
New
Rtp
1stCY
2nd+CY
BLUTI
1
1
2

COATI

1

1
GREFI
5

3
2
GRETI
2

2

Species    
New
Rtp
1stCY
2nd+CY
BLUTI
10
12
15
7
GOLDF
1

1

GREFI
1

1

GRETI
6

3
3
LOTTI
1

Indeterminate
SISKI
1

1

Recaptures: (2) Blue Tit 84d, Coal Tit 1y 129d
Sightings 33 Species: Cetti’s Warbler is a new species for me at the cress beds as far as I can remember. Heard them for some years just down the road at Rack Marsh but not here. Quite a lot of rapture activity, there must have been a thermal over the field to the west as at one time four kites circled high up with three Buzzard a little lower. At least four Little Egrets were quite active; three appeared to be sub-adults. The one exception was a male that dropped in around 10:45hrs, It had a much darker bill and well developed plumes on its head and breast. Yesterday in the morning when topping up the feeder I could not find any Blackbirds despite a careful check for them. Today in the early morning at least six seen or heard but they had all disappeared by around ten; the time I looked for them yesterday. The area is still quiet bird-wise and most of the trees and scrub have a week or two to go before coming into leaf. Apart from Pussy Willow there is little sign here of leaf buds swelling.

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