23/08 Greenham Common

Location: Greenham Common Western Enclosure

Session: 23-Aug-2019 07:20 to 11:15hrs

Notes: Not so many Blue Tits on the move today. Unfortunately the Swallows that went over today did not react to the audio. Didn’t see the Tree Pipit drop in, it was a nice surprise when IW found it in the net. The ninth Lesser Whitethroat of the season; still hoping to get 10. No Willow Warblers today and just the one Garden Warbler, these species will tail off over the next week until next year, as will Lesser Whitethroat. A better capture than last year’s matching visit. A good week 34 (four days) ringing; 128 birds of 17 species.

Weather: sunny periods, quite warm, calm.

Present: JL, IW

Nets: 48metres in three rides of 18m, 18m, 12m up from 07:45 to 10:30hrs

Lure (audio): misc. migrants, warblers, redstart, swallow intermittently 

Capture (New/Recapture) 25(25/00) 11 Species	Matching Visit: (Fri) 24/08/2018 18(17/01) 7 Species
Species New Rtp Juv Adult BLACA 4 4 BLUTI 3 3 CHIFF 9 9 GARWA 1 1 GOLDC 1 1 GRETI 1 1 LESWH 1 1 ROBIN 1 1 STOCH 1 1 TREPI 1 1 WHITE 2 2	Species New Rtp Juv Adult BLACA 5 5 BLUTI 2 1 1 CHIFF 2 1 3 GRETI 2 2 ROBIN 1 1 WHITE 2 2 WILWA 3 3

Recaptures: none

Today's Tree Pipit, a junvenile

Sightings 30 Species: Fairly quiet but not as quiet as yesterday. Swifts spotted when looking at soaring Red Kite. A flock of about 25 Swallows rested on the bunker fencing. The Willow Warbler was singing as I put the nets up; the only detected today. The Cormorant is the first seen over for a few weeks. There may have been two Dartford Warblers following a group of four Stonechats.

Blackcap (5+) Blue Tit (5+) Carrion Crow (3+) Chiffchaff (10+) Coal Tit (1+) Cormorant (1+) Dartford Warbler (1+) Garden Warbler (1+) Goldcrest (1+) Goldfinch (30+) Great Spotted Woodpecker (1+) Great Tit (3+) Green Woodpecker (2+) Jackdaw (17+) Lesser Whitethroat (1+)

Linnet (5+) Magpie (4+) Red Kite (3) Robin (3+) Starling (4+) Stock Dove (2+) Stonechat (6+) Swallow (33+) Swift (5+) Tree Pipit (1) Whitethroat (6+) Willow Warbler (1+) Woodlark (2+) Woodpigeon (5+) Wren (1+)