19/09 Greenham Common

Location: Greenham Common Western Enclosure
Session: 19-Sep-2019 07:30 to 11:10hrs

Notes:  Quiet today, an easy session. Blackcaps still about, numbers dwindling though. Similarly Chiffchaff, numbers have dropped. Two late Willow Warblers perhaps a little unexpected. Some Chiffchaffs moving through now are greener than the local birds, wing formulas need checking carefully. The capture was slow early and then steady for the rest of the session. Nice day

Weather: sunny periods, 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, intermittently 

Capture (New/Recapture) 29(29/00) 10 Species	Matching Visit: (Thurs) no visit
Species New Rtp Juv Adult BLACA 8 8 BLUTI 4 4 CHIFF 4 4 DUNNO 2 2 GOLDC 1 1 GRETI 7 5 2 ROBIN 1 1 WILWA 2 2	Species New Rtp Juv Adult

Recaptures: none

Sightings 32 Species: Greenfinch seem to have moved on to the common this week after being mostly absent since the breeding season. They fed on the grassland to the east of the enclosure with Goldfinch, Linnets and a few Meadow Pipits. A Chaffinch “pinked” in the woods; not detected any here for a while. Three Mistle Thrushes over and a Raven flew South along the treeline. No hirundine seen. 

Blackbird (2)                                              Blackcap (5)                                              Blue Tit (8)                                                Buzzard (1)                                               Carrion Crow (7)                                      Chaffinch (1)                                             Chiffchaff (5)                                             Coal Tit (1)                                                Dunnock (4)                                              Goldcrest (1)                                             Goldfinch (12)                                           Great Spotted Woodpecker (2)             Great Tit (6)                                              Green Woodpecker (2)                           Greenfinch (32)                                        Jackdaw (14)

Jay (2)                                                        Kestrel (1)                                                  Linnet (14)                                                 Magpie (2)                                                 Meadow Pipit (9)                                      Mistle Thrush (3)                                      Nuthatch (1)                                              Raven (1)                                                  Red Kite (2)                                               Reed Bunting (1)                                      Robin (5)                                                    Stock Dove (5)                                          Stonechat (3)                                            Willow Warbler (2)                                   Woodpigeon (5)                                       Wren (2)