06/06 Greenham Common, Western Enclosure

Location: Greenham Common, Western Enclosure

Session: 06-Jun-2019 06:40 to 10:10hrs

Notes: I intended to ring yesterday but although there was a light breeze when I left home, by the time I reached site it had increased enough to make rnging impossible. The first reasonable capture of the year so far with a good variety including a couple of scarcely ringed species, Linnet and Stonechat. In recent years here, we have captured big flocks of Long-tailed Tits at this time of year, today we had  nine plus an adult so quite an easy time. Otherwise a typical random capture. 

Weather: bright, sunny clouding over few spots of rain as we took the nets down, light wind breezy later

Present: JL, RJC, IW

Nets: 48metres in three rides of 18m, 18m, 12m up from 07:00 to 10:00hrs

Lure ( ): none

Capture (New/Recapture) 20(18/02) 10 Species	Matching Visit: None
Species New Rtp Juv Adult BLABI 1 1 BLUTI 1 1 CHIFF 1 1 COATI 1 1 GOLDC 1 1 LINNE 1 1 LOTTI 9 1 9 1 ROBIN 2 1 1 STOCH 1 1 WHITE 1 1	Species New Rtp Juv Adult

Recaptures: (02)

BLUTI             ringed 03/10/2018
LOTTI             ringed 03/10/2018

We often capture Stonechat at this time of year, this is a nice recently fledge juvenile, with the hint of white around the neck it is probably a male.

Sightings 34 Species: a typical list, some species were relatively quiet and not easy to detect. There may have been more Swifts as we were not sure if there were several groups or the same ones flying about. The Lesser Whitethroat started singing as we left.