Friday 6 October 2017

06/10 Greenham Common

Location: Greenham Common Estovers Car Park West Scrub
Session: 06-Oct-2017 07:45 to 10:40hrs
Headlines: As it was breezy out on the common I turned back and ringed in the scrub to the west of Estovers car park entrance; it is relatively sheltered from the wind there. I have only ringed here once recently and did quite well with one net. This time we put up an extra net that has potential when the winter thrushes arrive. The twelve Goldcrests included a long winged (57mm) individual carrying some fat. A couple of Chiffchaffs and Blackcaps were oblivious to the audio. Nice to capture a few Blackbirds and the Song Thrush. The Estovers feeder is quite busy considering I only put up the full set of feeders this week, hopefully we shall have a better winter than 2016/17. The Snelsmore Common feeder was busy when I topped up the feeders after this session. The Bagnor Feeders are not up yet, have a meeting with the new owner of the field this weekend so fingers crossed!
Weather: Breezy, cool, sunny, clouding over later
Present: JL, IW
Nets: 30M in two rides of 18M, 12M up from 08:00 to 10:10hrs
Lure (audio): Blackcap, Chiffchaff, Goldcrest, Firecrest, Yellow-browed Warbler, Redwing, Siskin, Redpoll intermittently 
Capture (New/Recapture)
22(22/00)
No matching visit
Species
All New
1st Wint
Adult
BLABI
4
2
2
DUNNO
1
1

GOLDC
12
12

GRETI
1
1

SONTH
1
1

WREN
3
3


Recaptures: None

Sightings 25 Species: A fly over Redpoll and the Rooks probably the best birds, the Marsh Tits and Coal Tits were at the feeders.

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