18/12 Bagnor Feeder

Location: Bagnor Feeder
Session: 18-Dec-2019 07:55 to 11:35hrs

Notes: It was busier than expected today. The food uptake has slowed over the last week or so and fewer birds around the feeders when doing every other day top up visits. 89 birds meant we had not time for a walk round the field. A better capture than last year’s matching visit; many more Blue and Great Tits. A Great Tit pulli ringed at nearby Mount Hill in 2013 (7 year’s old) is a good recovery; interestingly it had not been recovered in the interim. Also some good Blue Tit pulli recoveries. At this feeder we seem to have better success at capturing Goldfinch. At the Greenham feeder they are good at flying in and out vertically and they seldom visis to the Snelsmore feeder.

Weather: cloudy, some sunny periods, cold, calm, breezing up towards the end of the session.
Present: JL, IW
Nets: 12metres in 2 nets one 6M each side of feeders 08:10 to 11:10hrs
Lure (Feeder):Peanut, Black Sunflower, Niger, Fat Balls

Capture (New/Recapture) 89(48/41) 6 Species	Matching Visit: (Sun) 19/12/2018 43(25/18) 6Species
Species New Rtp 1stCY 2ndCY+ BLUTI 30 26 34 18 CHAFF 1 1 GOLDF 9 3 8 4 GRSWO 1 1 2 GRETI 7 10 8 9 MARTI 1 1	Species New Rtp 1stCY 2ndCY+ BLUTI 14 11 22 3 GOLDF 2 1 3 GRSWO 3 2 2 3 GRETI 5 3 7 1 NUTHA 1 1 1 SISKI 1 1

Recaptures: (41), recent except

Blue Tit          ringed: 03/03/2016, 16/03/2016, 01/11/2017, 16/11/2018, 04/12/2018,
                      17/01/2019, 05/02/2019, 17/03/2019,
.                      pulli ringed: 25/05/2015 box F2, 23/05/2018 box A01, 08/05/2019 box B02,                                 09/05/2019 box C02, 10/05/2019 box WH23x2, 13/05/2019 box B03x2
Goldfinch      ringed: 19/02/2019
Great Tit        ringed: 25/11/2016, 16/03/2018, 02/11/2018, 16/11/2018x2, 05/02/2019
.                     pulli ringed: 04/06/2013 box D03,
Sightings 26 Species: Ian’s list, probably missed a few, a 30 strong flock of Goldfinches flew over, later some were seen feeding on Alder as we drove up the Winterbourne Road.

Mallard (2) Pheasant (20) Buzzard (1) Moorhen (1) Woodpigeon (55) Great Spotted Woodpecker (3) Green Woodpecker (2) Kestrel (1) Magpie (1) Jackdaw (35) Rook Carrion Crow (8) Marsh Tit (2)

Blue Tit (56) Great Tit (16) Skylark (1) Long-tailed Tit (7) Wren (2) Nuthatch (2) Blackbird (2) Robin (3) Dunnock (1) Chaffinch (5) Bullfinch (2) Goldfinch (36) Siskin (2)