13/09 Greenham Common

Location: Greenham Common Western Enclosure
Session: 13-Sep-2019 07:30 to 11:30hrs

Notes: Good job I like ringing Blackcaps, another 25 today included an individual who weighed 24.7grms. We have had several over 20grms this year, but this is the heaviest so far. I thought it to be a different heavier species when I first put my hand in the bag. More Dunnocks, a late Garden Warbler and Willow Warblers with two more Goldcrests, numbers of the latter should start to increase towards thend of this month as wintering migrants move through.

Weather: sunny periods, warm, calm breezy later.

Present: JL, IW

Nets: 48metres in three rides of 18m, 18m, 12m up from 08:00 to 10:45hrs
Lure (audio): misc. migrants, warblers, redstart, yellow-browed warbler intermittently 

Capture (New/Recapture) 46(46/00) 9 Species	Matching Visit: none
Species New Rtp Juv Adult BLACA 25 25 BLUTI 5 5 CHIFF 5 5 DUNNO 2 2 GARWA 1 1 GOLDC 2 2 GRETI 2 2 ROBIN 2 2 WILWA 2 2	Species New Rtp Juv Adult

Recaptures: none

Sightings 32 Species: The heath was quite quiet compared to yeasterday. No sign of the hirundine that were streaming through. Best birds, the Spotted Flycatchers that arrived in the nearby tall birch on the heath. We postponed nets down hoping they would respond to calls and fly towards the enclosure. They continued feeding around the tree, so we took the nets down, during which they flew high over to the birch wood on the south side of the heath.

Blackbird (1)                                             Blackcap (27)                                           Blue Tit (6)                                                Buzzard (2)                                               Canada Goose (7)                                   Carrion Crow (2)                                      Chiffchaff (6)                                             Dunnock (2)                                              Garden Warbler (1)                                 Goldcrest (2)                                            Goldfinch (10)                                          Great Spotted Woodpecker (1)             Great Tit (3)                                              Green Woodpecker (1)                           Greenfinch (7)                                            Grey Wagtail (2)

Jackdaw (3)                                              Jay (2)                                                       Linnet (3)                                                   Magpie (2)                                                Meadow Pipit (5)                                     Nuthatch (1)                                             Red Kite (1)                                              Robin (3)                                                   Spotted Flycatcher (2)                            Starling (5)                                                Stock Dove (3)                                         Stonechat (3)                                           Willow Warbler (2)                                   Woodlark (5)                                             Woodpigeon (6)                                       Wren (1)