15/12 Greenham Common

Location: Greenham Common Feeder

Session: 15-Dec-2019 07:45 to 10:45hrs

Notes: An extra visit today, it still being in the 1st half of Dec, just. Not many birds about or captured, the latter due to the gusting wind. The 2018/19 matching visit was a much better capture.

Weather: cloudy, some sunny periods, cold, very breezy.
Present: JL, IW, DL,RJC,JHW,JPM
Nets: 24metres in 3 nets one 6M each side of feeders and a 12M gorse scrub net up from 08:00 to 10:30hrs
Lure (Feeder):Niger, Black Sunflower, Peanut

Capture (New/Recapture) 16(11/05) 6 Species	Matching Visit: (Sun) 16/12/2018 32(23/09) 7 Species
Species New Rtp 1stCY 2ndCY+ BLUTI 4 2 5 1 CHAFF 2 2 COATI 1 1 GOLDF 1 1 GRETI 3 2 4 1 WREN 1 1	Species New Rtp 1syCY 2ndCY+ BLUTI 11 4 12 3 COATI 1 1 GOLDF 4 4 GRETI 6 3 6 3 GREFI 1 1 MARTI 1 1 ROBIN 1 1

Recaptures: (05), recent except

Blue Tit           ringed 21/10/2018.
Sightings 25 Species: Ian’s list, except for a Raven not much of note

Blackbird (6) Black-headed Gull (1) Blue Tit (10) Bullfinch (2) Carrion Crow (4) Chaffinch (4) Coal Tit (2) Dunnock (2) Goldfinch (5) Great Spotted Woodpecker (1) Great Tit (7) Green Woodpecker (1) Greenfinch (13)

Grey Heron (1) Jackdaw (12) Jay (1) Lesser Black-backed Gull (10) Magpie (2) Raven (1) Red Kite (1) Redwing (2) Robin (5) Song Thrush (1) Woodpigeon (13) Wren (2)