24/07 Greenham Common

Location: Greenham Common Western Enclosure
Session: 24-Jul-2019 0650 to 10:50hrs

Notes: A little less busy than yesterday. After the thunderstorm’s during the night I hope that something interesting might have been forced down but maybe next time. The Greenfinch ring serial numbers were close to yesterday’s Greenfinch that we ringed and I almost released it at the net! A few less sylvia and phylos warblers today except we had a goodish capture of Whitethroats. Six plus Stonechats flew into the enclosure. One perched on a mist net pole and another attempted to land on the net top shelf string; managed to capture two others; both moulting juveniles. The Swallow audio did call at least one down but from the alarm calls it bounced out of the net; one of three seen all through the session.

Weather: Very warm, clear sunny, light breeze
Present: JL, IW
Nets: 48mettes in three rides of 18m, 18m, 12m up from 07:30 to 10:30hrs
Lure (audio): misc. migrants, warblers, redstart, swallow intermittently 

Capture (New/Recapture) 40(39/01) 8 Species	Matching Visit: (Wed) 25/07/2018 11(11/00)6 Species
Species New Rtp Juv Adult BLACA 12 12 BLUTI 5 5 CHIFF 2 2 GARWA 4 4 GREFI 1 1 STOCH 2 2 WHITE 8 7 1 WILWA 6 6	Species New Rtp Juv Adult BLACA 1 1 CHIFF 3 3 GARWA 2 2 ROBIN 2 2 WHITE 2 1 1 WILWA 1 1

Recaptures: (1) GREFI ringed elsewhere, details awaited

Juvenile Stonechat moulting into male plumage

Sightings 26 Species: The first Reed Bunting for a while, The Swifts we located very high up when looking at closer birds against the sky so there were probably many more.

Blackbird Blackcap Black-headed Gull (2) Blue Tit Bullfinch Carrion Crow Chiffchaff Dunnock Garden Warbler Goldfinch Great Spotted Woodpecker Great Tit Green Woodpecker

Greenfinch Jackdaw Jay Linnet Magpie Reed Bunting Red Kite Stonechat (6+) Swallow Swift (6) Woodpigeon Whitethroat Willow Warbler