21/10 Greenham Common Estover(616) Feeder

Location: Greenham Common Estovers Feeder (616)
Session: 21-Oct-2018 07:30 to 10:50hrs

Headlines: A pre-season session at the feeder, not a bad total considering the feeder has only been up for a week. Interestingly the only recapture was a Robin. No adult or retrap  tits and the Marsh Tits manage to allude capture. 

Weather: Bright, sunny, clear, cool, warm in the sun, calm most of the session.

Present: JL, IW, DL

Nets: 36Metres in three rides around feeders, 22metres in two rides in the west scrub up from 08:00 to 10:30hrs

Lure (feeder): black sunflower, peanuts, niger

         (audio)    BC,CC,FC,GC, LR, BR; intermittently.

Capture (New/Recapture) 57(56/01)	Matching Visit: (not really matching visit) 15-Oct-2017; interesting to compare though 77(59/08)
Species New Rtp Juv Adult BLUTI 22 22 CHAFF 1 1 COATI 2 2 GOLDC 2 2 GOLDF 5 3 2 GRETI 17 17 GREFI 6 5 1 ROBIN 1 1	Species New Rtp Juv Adult BLABI 1 1 BLACA 2 2 BLUTI 17 3 20 CHIFF 1 1 COATI 6 1 6 1 DUNNO 2 2 GOLDC 4 2 6 GRSWO 1 1 GRETI 15 1 11 5 GREFI 14 1 14 1 MARTI 3 3 ROBIN 3 2

Recaptures: (1) Robin ringed 15-Oct-2017

Sightings 28 Species: Ian’s list, probably missed a few as we were quite busy, best species a croaking Raven flying quite high northwest, several groups of Redwing mostly flying west, several Lesser Redpoll flying about; let us hope they find the feeders this winter.