15/11 Greenham Common Western Enclosure

Location: Greenham Common Western Enclosure

Session: 15-Nov-2018 07:40 to 11:20 hrs

Notes: I was hoping that the forecast for it being foggy this morning might be true, but it wasn’t. It was overcast and quite dank though. A calling Chiffchaff lifted my expectation a little. I saw it moving towards the enclosure and I saw it leave and disappear into woodland. By 09:10hrs the capture was just three Goldcrest. I walked around a lot and there being little activity on the heath was preparing to take the nets down at 10:00hrs. As they often do things quickly changed when a Long-tailed Tit flock arrived. Seven with two more Goldcrest were captured. These processed a return to the nets produced six more, another Goldcrest, three Blue Tits and a very smart looking male Blackcap. Soon after these were processed it got very breezy and was blowing a bit of a gale as I took the nets down.

Weather: Overcast, a few sunny periods, calm early, breezy after 10:30hrs, cool
Present: JL
Nets: 48metres in three rides of 18m, 18m, 12m up from 08:00 to 11:00hrs
Lure (audio): Playlist Autumn, BCCCFCGC and Meadow pipit

Capture (New/Recapture) 23(19/04)	Matching Visit:  no matching Wednesday visit
Species New Rtp 1stCY 2nd+CY BLACA 1 1 BLUTI 3 3 GOLDC 4 2 6 LOTTI 11 2 indeterminate	Species New Rtp 1stCY 2nd+CY

Recaptures: (4)

Goldcrest       ringed 23-Oct-2018, 31-Oct-2018
Long-tailed Tit two ringed 03-Oct-2018

Sightings 31 Species: I might have missed some birds when doing the tit flock, but it was fairly quiet with just a few birds flying about. That is until just as I was leaving when a mixed flock of winter thrushes flew west and a small flock of Canada Geese went north  with a Greylag Goose. Earlier a Song thrush a two Great Tits sang for a while and the Brambling flew east hopefully to the Greenham Feeder.