18/06 Greenham Common

Location: Greenham Common, Western Enclosure

Session: 18-Jun-2019 07:30 to 10:30hrs

Notes: After this almost permanent string of rain bearing lows a look at the weather app last night showed that condition until mid-morning should be good for ringing. It was bright sunshine when I got up however when I left home it was beginning to cloud over. Still the main thing was that it was calm and not raining. It was nice to put up nets in calm conditions. The six Blue Tits were individuals that crossed the heath through the morning and the Long-tailed Tit appeared to be on its own; no flocks of either species were detected.

Weather: clouding over, warm, calm, breezy towards the end of the session as the clouds got heavier.
Present: JL, IW
Nets: 48metre in 3 rides of 18m, 18m, 12m up from 07:45 to 10:00hrs
Lure ( ): none

Capture (New/Recapture) 10(09/01) 4 species.	Matching Visit: No matching visit.
Species New Rtp Juv Adult BLUTI 6 6 CHIFF 1 1 LOTTI 1 1 WILWA 1 1 1 1	Species New Rtp Juv Adult

Recaptures: (01) WILWA ringed as a juvenile 05/07/2019

Sightings 36 Species: A few foraging birds were moving around the heath for most of the morning including juvenile phylos and tits. A family party of at least five Stonechats were active around the enclosure when I arrived but had move away by the time the nets were up. The out of habitat Reed Warbler is an early sign that birds are beginning to move away from breeding grounds

Blackbird (5) Blackcap (3) Blue Tit (6) Buzzard (1) Carrion Crow (2) Chiffchaff (3) Coal Tit (2) Cormorant (1) Dunnock (1) Feral Pigeon (1) Garden Warbler (2) Goldfinch (5) Great Spotted Woodpecker (2) Green Woodpecker (1) Greenfinch (2) House Martin (2) Jackdaw (42) Jay (2)

Linnet (15) Little Egret (1) Long-tailed Tit (1) Magpie (4) Meadow Pipit (1) Mistle Thrush (1) Nuthatch (2) Red Kite (1) Reed Warbler (1) Song Thrush (2) Starling (5) Stock Dove (3) Stonechat (5) Swift (4) Whitethroat (3) Willow Warbler (6) Woodlark (4) Woodpigeon (5)