13/06 Greenham Common

Location: Greenham Common Western Enclosure
Session: 13-Juv-2018 06:00 to 10:20hrs

Headlines: Intended to put a full set of nets up but only manage to get three nets up before the flock of Long-tailed Tits arrived. Yesterday there were several juvenile Stonechats around the enclosure; just a lone singing male this morning. It is too early for call lures so the capture was pot luck. Same total as 2017 but much less variety, more Long-tailed Tits. Some good recoveries though a Goldfinch ringed in my near-by garden, three Long-tailed Tits probably some of the parents of the flock and who had been captured in previous flocks as Juveniles, when ringed. The Willow Warbler was ringed as a juvenile in 2016 so has travels to west Africa and back twice so far.

Weather: bright, sunny, calm, breezy from mid-session.
Present: JL, IW
Nets: 48metres in three rides of 18, 18, 12metres up from 06:20 to 10:00hrs
Lure (none):
Capture (New/Recapture)              Matching Visit

22(17/05)	22(21/01) 14-Jun-2017
Species New Rtp Juv Adult BLABI 1 1 BLACA 1 1 GOLDF 1 1 2 GRETI 1 1 LOTTI 11 3 11 3 WILWA 1 1 2	Species New Rtp Juv Adult BULLF 2 2 CHIFF 3 1 4 COATI 1 1 DUNNO 2 2 GOLDC 1 3 1 GRETI 1 1 LOTTI 7 7 ROBIN 3 WHITE 1 1

Recaptures: (5)

Goldfinch ringed 01-Jan-2017
Long-tailed Tit ringed 29-Sep-2015, 31-May-2017, 14-Jun-2017
Willow Warbler ringed 30-Jun-2016

Sightings 38 Species: Quite a lot of movement across the heath early; quiet after about 08:30hrs.Best birds the a family of Whitethroats, quite scarce at this end of the common since the heavy rain.