02/07 Greenham Common

Location: Greenham Common Western Enclosure
Session: 02-Jul-2019 07:35 to 10:55hrs

Notes: First chance to get out for a while for various reasons. Not a bad capture for a lure-less session and some nice species. The very juvenile Lesser Whitethroat is probably proof that the singing male that arrived late May in the scrub to the south bred. The two Garden Warblers were probably a local pair, the male as well as having a CP had a smaller brood patch than the female; most male passerines don’t have a brood patch. Also notable were the two juvenile Stonechats that we captured, part of a family party that went through the enclosure.

Weather: fine, sunny, warm, breezy

Present: JL, IW

Nets: 48metres in three rides up from 08:00 to 10:30hrs

Lure ( ): none

Capture (New/Recapture) 11(11/00)	Matching Visit:  No matching visit
Species New Rtp Juv Adult BLUTI 3 3 GARWA 2 2 GRETI 1 1 LESWH 1 1 ROBIN 1 1 STOCH 2 2	Species New Rtp Juv Adult

Recaptures: none

 Juvenile Lesser Whitethroat

One  of todays adult Garden Warbler

Sightings 35 Species: For the first time this year no Willow Warbler detected and just the one House Martin over west. Heard the Swift while putting up the nets but could not see them; think they were high up. The female Sparrowhawk was carrying what look like a partly eaten Blackbird and explains why they were making a fuss in the wood earlier.

Blackbird Blackcap Black-headed Gull Blue Tit Buzzard (1) Carrion Crow Chaffinch Chiffchaff Coal Tit Dunnock Garden Warbler (2) Goldfinch Great Spotted Woodpecker Great Tit Green Woodpecker Greenfinch Grey Heron House Martin

Jackdaw Kestrel (1) Linnet Little Egret (1) Magpie Nuthatch Red Kite Robin Song Thrush Sparrowhawk (1) Female Starling Stonechat Swift Whitethroat Woodlark Woodpigeon Wren