Monday 19 February 2018

18/02 Snelsmore Common

Location: Snelsmore Common Feeder visit 08 of 10
Session: 18-Feb-2018 07:45 to 11:30hrs
Headlines: After recent visits we started with little expectation of a good capture. The first round produced five: three Great Tits, a Long-tailed Tit and a Blue Tit and it looked as if this expectation might be true.The following rounds continued in a similar vein and it was noticeable that Great Tit numbers were building. From about 10:00hrs this changed as more Blue Tit began arriving also more Coal Tits. We captured three Chaffinches but only the two females were ring-able, the male captured having grotty foot. It is the second time we have captured the post fledging Nuthatch ringed on a nest box about 20metres from the feeder. We ring quite few pulli Nuthatch in the boxes here but post fledging captures are scarce. Last year’s visit 08, whilst having a lower total, had a greater variety of species. A look at the totals for this visit over the ten years since this feeder was erected shows it to be the second best total. In summary it looks like Great Tit were disbursing, that Blue Tit spent time on territory before visiting the feeder and  the Long-tailed Tits being “new” birds probably have not set up territory yet; a busy and rewarding session.
Weather: Overcast, getting colder as the session progressed, clam, some sunny gaps in cloud later.
Present: JL, JHW, IW, DL, JPM
Nets: 24metres: a 6m nets each side of feeder and a 12m nets about 5 metres west of feeder up from 08:00 to 11:00hrs
Lure (feeder): fat balls, niger, black sunflower, peanuts
Capture (New/Recapture)
60(35/25) 2017/18 visit 08 of 10
43(23/20) 2016/17 visit 08 Report Link
Species
New
Rtp
1stWint
>1stWint
BLUTI
11
10
19
2
CHAFF
2

2

COATI
2
7
6
3
GRETI
13
7
16
4
LOTTI
5

Indeterminate
NUTHA
1
1
Indeterminate
ROBIN
1


1
Species
New
Rtp
1stWint
>1stWint
BLABI
1

1

BLUTI
3
8
5
6
CHAFF
5

5

COATI
3
3
6

DUNNO
1


1
GRETI
1
7
4
4
LOTTI
6

Indeterminate
MARTI
1

1

NUTHA
1
1
1

ROBIN
1
1
1
1
WREN
1

1

Totals for visit 08 of 10 for the last 10 winter periods
2008/09
2009/10
2010/11
2011/12
2012/13
2013/14
2014/15
2015/16
2016/17
2017/18
45
104
48
39
41
28
17
54
43
60

Recaptures: (25) all recent except:
BLUTI             62d ringed at the Bagnor Feeder,

                       Pulli 288d from nest box CP24, 288d from CP22, 284d from CP08
COATI            2y 1d, 1y 53d
GRETI            2y 51d, Pulli 288d from nest box CP09
NUTHA          Pulli 293d from nest box CP07

Sightings 27 Species: Ian’s list, Raven called briefly, kites active for much of the morning, Great Tit numbers matched Blue Tit, no sign of the usual one or two Marsh Tits, otherwise a normal count of species at this site.

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