25/11 Snelsmore Feeder

Location: Snelsmore Common Feeder

Session: 25-Nov-2018 0745 to 11:20hrs

Notes: Busy busy, we ringed or extracted without a pause over the three-hour session. It is interesting to look at the capture profile: early it was mostly Coal Tits, mid-session mixed with a good proportion of Great Tits, late in the session Blue Tits made up about 90% of the 31 captures of the last round. The equivalent matching visit two (26-Nov-2017) compared with this visit, reinforces the observation that 2017 had a poor breeding season survival, shown in this case by low numbers of Blue Tit and Great Tit; 2018 survival looks promising so far.

Weather: Mostly overcast, calm slight breeze late in session, cool

Present: JL, IW

Nets: 12metres, 6m net each side of feeder up from 08:00 to 11:00hrs

Lure (feeder): black sunflower, niger, fat balls, peanuts

Capture (New/Recapture) 90(64/26)	Matching Visit: 26-Nov-2017 (visit 2) 36(17/19)
Species New Rtp 1stCY 2nd+CY BLUTI 29 18 43 4 CHAFF 1 1 COATI 6 6 8 4 GOLDF 6 2 4 GRSWO 1 1 GRETI 17 1 16 2 MARTI 2 2 NUTHA 2 1 3	Species New Rtp 1stCY 2nd+CY BLUTI 6 9 11 4 COATI 6 8 12 2 GRETI 3 1 2 2 LOTTI 2 MARTI 1 1

Recaptures: (26) all from visit 2018/19 visit one except:
BLUTI    ringed 12/11/2017 and 26/11/2017, pulli ringed at boxes WH02, WH25 the 22/05/2018 and 26/05/2018 ringed at box CP08, two from CP12 and two from CP24 ringed                        
COATI   ringed 12/11/2017, 28/01/2018, 16/02/2018, 25/03/2018
GRETI   pulli ringed box CP06 22/05/2017
NUTHA  pulli ringed CP22 29/05/2018 (also captured on 2018/19 visit one)

Sightings 23 Species: Ian’s List: we had little time for any meaningful observations and the tree line here is not very good for sightings anyway. A Brambling called briefly in the tree by the Mary Hare entrance. A strong movement of winter thrushes going west south west is interesting, could they be those we saw Friday at Greenham returning?