03/03 Bagnor

Location: Bagnor Feeder

Session: 03-Mar-2020, 07:45 to 11:45hrs

Notes: Ground frost when we got on site, but not as cold as expected. Started a little late; miss-timed the traffic. Very slow early, one bird first round, and just a few for the next two rounds. We thought we were going to have a quiet morning. It began clouding over around 10:15hrs and birds, probably that had been on territory in the sunny weather, began to arrive; the next round we extracted 21 and the final round 13. Seems a long time since we had a sunny morning, very pleasant, had almost forgotten what it was like!

Weather: Bright sunny, calm early breezy later, warm in the sun, ground frost first thing.

Present: JL,IW

Nets: 12 metres in 2 net rides, one 6 metre net each side of feeders

Lure (Feeder): Peanut, Black Sunflower, Niger, Fat Balls

Capture (New/Recapture) 52(36/16) 6 Species	Matching Visit: 05/03/2019 19(13/06) 4 Species
Species New Rtp 1stCY 2ndCY+ BLUTI 19 9 24 4 CHAFF 1 1 GOLDF 2 1 1 GRSWO 1 1 GRETI 13 6 16 3 LOTTI 1 indeterminate	Species New Rtp 1stCY 2ndCY+ BLUTI 4 4 7 1 CHAFF 1 1 GOLDF 1 1 GRETI 7 2 7 2

Recaptures: (09), recent except
BLUTI             ringed: 02/02/18, 05/02/19
.                      pulli ringed 20/05/19 box D02
GRSWO         ringed: 12/12/19
GRETI            pulli ringed: 06/05/19 box WH29, 13/05/19 box D03, 17/05/19 box F4
Sightings 31 Species: Kites, Buzzards and Skylarks displaying, and a single Redwing, only the second time I have detected this species in the valley since the end of 2019. A very high-flying circling female Sparrowhawk probably the bird of the day.

Pheasant (10)          Mallard (3)    Woodpigeon (25)    Moorhen (2) Little Egret (2)          Sparrowhawk (1)     Female Red Kite (2)  Buzzard (4)  Great Spotted Woodpecker (2)    Jay (2)           Magpie (6)    Jackdaw (50)           Rook (13)     Carrion Crow (6)     Coal Tit (1)   Blue Tit (32)

Great Tit (23)           Skylark (4)    Long-tailed Tit (2)    Wren (3)       Nuthatch (1) Treecreeper (1)       Blackbird (8) Redwing (1) Song Thrush (3)      Robin (5)      Dunnock (3) Chaffinch (1)            Bullfinch (2) Linnet (40)    Goldfinch (1)