26/07 Greenham Common

Location: Greenham Common Western Enclosure

Session: 26-Jul-2019 0715 to 10:50hrs

Notes: The rain, apart from some spotting late in the session, as it often does, went each side of the Greenham Common Plateau. There was quite a lot of Linnet/Goldfinch/Greenfinch activity in the surrounding scrub. But we only ringed migrants today, mostly Garden Warblers and Whitethroats. All were aged as juveniles in post juvenile moult. The Greenfinch that we captured, ringed elsewhere, on Wednesday (24th Jul) was ringed 02/12/2017 at Nightingale Wood near Swindon;38Km away.

Weather: Overcast, light breeze, warm, a few patches of blue and spots of rain in the final half hour of the session.

Present: JL, IW

Nets: 48metres in three rides of 18m, 18m, 12m up from 07:40 to 10:30hrs

Lure (audio): Misc. Migrants, Warblers, Redstart, Swallow intermittently 

Capture (New/Recapture) 20(20/00) 5 Species	Matching Visit: none
Species New Rtp Juv Adult BLACA 2 2 CHIFF 1 1 GARWA 7 7 WHITE 7 7 WILWA 3 3	Species New Rtp Juv Adult

Recaptures: none

Sightings 24 Species: A loose flock of finches was in the surrounding scrub, a group of Woodlark and two Swallows over the heath the only other notable activity.

Blackbird Blackcap Carrion Crow Chaffinch (1) Chiffchaff Garden Warbler Goldfinch Great Spotted Woodpecker Great Tit Green Woodpecker Greenfinch Jackdaw

Lesser Black-backed Gull (1) Linnet Magpie Mistle Thrush (4) Song Thrush Stock Dove Stonechat (6) Swallow (2) Whitethroat Willow Warbler Woodlark (5) Woodpigeon