21/01 Bagnor Feeder

Location: Bagnor Feeder

Session: 21-Jan-2020 07:40 to 11:30hrs

Notes: Lots of Blue Tits today. They formed 84% of the total. Some good re-traps of nest box ringed birds including a 2016 Great Tit from a Winterbourne Holt box; the 1st time it has appeared since being ringed. The number of Great Tit at this feeder has dropped since the cold weather began on Saturday, just six trapped in this session. Three Coal Tits, a Goldfinch and a Chaffinch without papilloma virus infected feet made up the total of 73. Like all three feeders there is a lack of other bird species.

Weather: sunny, frosty, cold, calm.
Present: JL, IW
Nets: 12metres in 2 nets one 6M each side of feeders up from 08:00 to 11:00hrs
Lure (Feeder):Peanut, Black Sunflower, Niger, Fat Balls 

Capture (New/Recapture) 73(37/36) 5 Species	Matching Visit: (Sun) 17/01/2019 34(21/13) 5 Species
Species New Rtp 1stCY 2ndCY+ BLUTI 34 28 42 20 CHAFF 1 1 COATI 2 1 3 GOLDF 1 1 GRETI 6 3 3	Species New Rtp 1stCY 2ndCY+ BLUTI 12 3 12 3 CHAFF 1 1 GOLDF 1 1 GRETI 2 1 3 LOTTI 5 9 indeterminate

Recaptures: (36),all recent except

BLUTI  ringed: 06/01/2017,16/11/2018,04/12/2018 also 24/11/2019 Snelsmore Feeder
            pulli ringed: 22/05/2018x2 boxes WH18 WH25, 23/05/2018x2 boxes A01 B02,
.           08/05/2019 box B02, 09/05/2019 box C02, 10/05/2019 box WH23,
.           13/05/2019x2 boxes B03 CP33, 14/05/2019 box CP11, 20/5/2019, box A05,
.           25/05/2019 box CP36,
GOLDF ringed: 19/02/2019
GRETI  pulli ringed 06/06/2016 Box WH22
Sightings 28 Species: With steady flow of birds to process there was little time for birding and apart from crows, rooks and jackdaws there was little moving. The Little Egret was the first of the year for me. Bagnor once held good numbers, sometimes double figures, all year except in the breeding season. I visit three times a week topping up the feeder but this winter they are comparatively scarce in the Newbury area not just at Bagnor.

Pheasant (31)                                       Little Egret (1)                                       Red Kite (1)                                          Buzzard (1)                                           Moorhen (1)                                          Woodpigeon (16)                                  Barn Owl (1)                                       Great Spotted Woodpecker (2)             Green Woodpecker (1)                         Jay (1)                                                  Magpie (2)                                            Jackdaw (30)                                        Rook (22)                                              Carrion Crow (5)

Coal Tit (3)                                                          Marsh Tit (2)                                                        Blue Tit (62)                                                         Great Tit (5)                                                         Wren (2)                                                               Nuthatch (2)                                                         Blackbird (3)                                                        Song Thrush (3)                                                  Mistle Thrush (1)                                                 Robin (3)                                                              Dunnock (1)                                                         Chaffinch (4)                                                        Goldfinch (5)                                                       Siskin(1)