19/12 Bagnor Feeder

Location: Bagnor Feeder
Session: 19-Dec-2018 07:45 to 11:30hrs

Notes: A similar capture and a year to the day since last winter’s matching visit. Five Great Spotted Woodpeckers in a session is not quite the record; it was noisy extracting though. It upset my ageing confidence as two birds I aged as birds of the year turned out not to be. Not a busy session, a steady flow of captures each net round with a pause in the middle. This enabled a walk along the field when Ian spotted a Reed Bunting sitting in the thicket that was once the cress bed. Some good pulli captures all 1st CY birds. A couple of species less than last winter’s matching visit. I expected Coal and Marsh Tit today as there is usually one of the former and two the latter around the feeder when I do a top up; no sign of either today.

Weather: sunny, cold, calm, light breeze later
Present: JL, IW
Nets: 12metres in two rides, a 6m nets each side of feeder up from08:00 to 11:00hrs

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

Capture (New/Recapture) 42(25/18)	Matching Visit: 19/12/2017 46(20/26)
Species New Rtp 1stCY 2nd+CY BLUTI 14 11 22 3 GOLDF 2 1 3 GRSWO 3 2 2 3 GRETI 5 3 7 1 NUTHA 1 1 SISKI 1 1	Species New Rtp 1stCY 2nd+CY BLUTI 10 15 16 9 CHAFF 1 1 COATI 1 1 DUNNO 1 1 GOLDF 3 2 1 GRSWO 1 1 1 1 GRETI 4 4 7 1 LOTTI 5 indeterminate

Recaptures: (18) recent except:

BLUTI             pulli ringed 15/05/2018 box B08, 22/05/2018 box WH25,
.                       23/05/2018 (2) box A01, box B02
GRETI            pulli 23/05/2018 box C05
GRSWO         ringed 19/12/2017, ringed 16/03/2018

1st Winter Male Siskin, the first of many this winter hopefully

Sightings 33 Species: A decent group of Long-tailed Tit, the first time for a while that  I have seen more than three. A Grey Wagtail dropped into the cress bed and a fly-over Yellowhammer was the first here since the spring. No winter thrushes or gulls detected.