18/09 Greenham Common

Location: Greenham Common Western Enclosure

Session: 18-Sep-2019 07:20 to 11:20hrs

Notes:  The visit today started off slowly and it looked like we were not going to be very busy, so we walked around a lot. That is until around 09:00hrs when we had a tit/warbler flock go through; we captured 25. Then it went quiet again, so we did another walk around. As we approach the south side of the enclosure, we could see a bird in the net that looked different and thought no surely not! It was the second Wryneck in just a few weeks; 1967 Newbury Ringing Group started ringing in the area and not until this year had we ringed a Wryneck and now we had a second bird. Another good session at the Enclosure.

Weather: sunny periods, chilly early then warm, calm

Present: JL, IW

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

Lure (audio): misc. migrants, warblers, redstart, yellow-browed warbler, meadow pipit intermittently 

Capture (New/Recapture) 42(35/07) 10 Species	Matching Visit: (Wed) no visit
Species New Rtp Juv Adult BLACA 7 7 BLUTI 8 8 CHIFF 8 8 COATI 1 1 DUNNO 1 1 GOLDC 1 1 GRETI 2 2 LOTTI 5 6 ROBIN 1 1 1 1 WRYNE 1 1	Species New Rtp Juv Adult

Recaptures: Most of the Long-tailed tits were from flocks ringed 06/08 and 28/08 this year, one was ringed 08/10/2018 The Robin was ringed 02/10/2018

The Wryneck, another immature, they are strange birds they twist their necks and head round in a snake like manner and definitly have a descriptive name

Sightings 31 Species: Spotted some Swallows going through today, quite high so there others probably missed. Obviously the star bird was the Wryneck.

Blackbird (1)                                   Blackcap (7)                                   Blue Tit (10)                                   Buzzard (2)                                    Carrion Crow (4)                           Chiffchaff (11)                                Coal Tit (2)                                     Dartford Warbler (1)                     Dunnock (3)                                   Feral Pigeon (1)                            Goldcrest (1)                                  Goldfinch (26)                                Great Spotted Woodpecker (1) Great Tit (5)                                   Green Woodpecker (3)                Greenfinch (2)

Jackdaw (24)                                 Jay (3)                                             Linnet (6)                                        Long-tailed Tit (10)                       Magpie (4)                                      Meadow Pipit (19)                         Mistle Thrush (1)                           Red Kite (1)                                    Robin (3)                                         Stock Dove (3)                               Stonechat (6)                                 Swallow (5)                                    Woodpigeon (6)                            Wren (3)                                         Wryneck (1)