05/08 Greenham Common

Location: Greenham Common Western Enclosure

Session: 05-Aug-2020, 07:25 to 10:45hrs

Notes: Blustery swirling wind today that moved from a SE direction to the SW during the session. It varied from relatively calm to a strong blustery breeze. I nearly didn’t bother hence the latish start but one of the best captures this year was in similar conditions so I persevered. Eighteen is better than yesterday’s total in almost ideal conditions. Plenty of Whitethroat in the surrounding scrub for a while but  most not reacting to audio. Willow Warblers made up the bulk of the capture.

Note: most of the matching dates from 2019 for the appropriate week numbers apply to Saturday through to Monday for 2020; days I don’t normally ring here.

Present: JL,IW

Weather: overcast early sunny later, warm, blustering breeze

Nets: 48metres in 3 net rides, two 18M and one 12M net up from 08:00 to 10:30hrs

Lure (Audio): Warblers, Misc Migrants, Redstart, intermittently.

Recaptures:(2)        Whitethroat ringed 31/07/2020  Willow Warbler ringed 15/07 2020

Sightings 30 Species: As yesterday there was some activity in the scrub. The was a single Swift over high east picked up while trying to id a gull so there may have been others unseen.