04/09 Greenham Common

 Location: Greenham Common Western Enclosure
Session: 04-Sep-2020, 07:30 to 11:15hrs

Notes: After yesterday’s hostile weather, I was expecting to do better today. There were more birds about, but the capture was disappointing. I meant to stop at 11:00hrs, but my watch had stopped!

Present: JL,IW
Weather: sunny periods becoming overcast later, cool, light WSW breeze.
Nets: 48metres in 3 net rides, two 18M and one 12M net up from 08:00 to 11:15hrs
Lure (Audio): Warblers, Misc Migrants, Redstart, Hirundine intermittently.

Recaptures: (0) None

Sightings 28 Species: With the better weather more movement today, including three wheatear, Greenfinch and Goldfinch flocks out on the grassland, and a small movement of hirundine trickled through drifting south through the morning.