29/10 Greenham Common

Location: Greenham Common Western Enclosure

Session: 29-Oct-2019 07:35to 10:30hrs

Notes:  A quiet day today, it was cold, and few birds were in the scrub. Each of the four birds captured arrived at different times; one per net round. A Meadow Pipit flew in the net while I was extracting one of the Goldcrest but got blown out again by the wind. A lot of walking about produced little.

Weather: overcast cold, calm early, breezy for most of the session.

Present: JL, IW

Nets: 48metres in three rides of 18m, 18m, 12m up from 08:00 to 10:15hrs

Lure (audio): autumn, BBCCGCFC, Yellow-browed Warbler, Meadow Pipit intermittently 

Capture (New/Recapture) 04(04/00) 3 Species	Matching Visit: (Tues) 30/10/2018 05(03/02) 3 Species
Species New Rtp 1stCY 2ndCY+ BLABI 1 1 BLUTI 1 1 GOLDC 2 3	Species New Rtp 1stCY 2ndCY+ BLUTI 1 1 GOLDC 2 1 3 1 GRETI 1 1

Recaptures: none
Sightings 26 Species: Apart from winter thrushes not much moving. The Redwings were again flying southwest in groups, some towards the top end of double figures. A few more Fieldfares today, no big flocks yet. As there were no Stonechats about the Dartford Warbler appeared to be following a Robin instead for a while.

Blackbird (14)                                           Black-headed Gull (2)                             Blue Tit (5)                                                Carrion Crow (8)                                      Chaffinch (4)                                             Dartford Warbler (1)                                Dunnock (1)                                              Fieldfare (26)                                            Goldfinch (1)                                             Great Spotted Woodpecker (2)             Great Tit (1)                                              Grey Heron (5)                                         Jackdaw (41)

Jay (3)                                                        Linnet (4)                                                   Magpie (3)                                                 Meadow Pipit (5)                                      Mistle Thrush (2)                                      Red Kite (3)                                               Redwing (368)                                          Robin (5)                                                    Skylark (1)                                                 Starling (8)                                                Stock Dove (2)                                          Woodpigeon (5)                                       Wren (2)