21/09 Greenham Common

 Location: Greenham Common Western Enclosure
Session: 21-Sep-2020, 07:45 to 11:20hrs

Notes: Felt like November when I arrived in the fog and it was quite chilly at first. Just five birds today. The first, a Willow Warbler was a small bird (wing 60mm and weight 6.7gms) that I thought to be a Chiffchaff when I extracted it from the net. On finding no emargination on the 6th primary I first checked the other wing before deciding it was a Willow Warbler; the wing point was 3/4 and the 2nd was between the 6 and 7 primaries. I sometime wonder if such birds are hybrids. 

It was a quiet morning with little activity until the fog cleared. 

"Small" Willow Warbler and wingPresent:  JL,IW

Weather: Foggy early, cool, calm, clearing around 10:00hrs to bright sunshine and warm.
Nets: 48metres in 3 net rides, two 18M and one 12M net up from 08:15 to 11:00hrs
Lure (Audio): Warblers, Misc Migrants, Redstart, Dartford Warbler, Hirundine, Autumn, WagPips, Yellow-browed Warbler intermittently.

Recaptures: (1)  Great Tit ringed 01/07/2020
Sightings 36 Species: A new species for the year, a Lesser Redpoll. We normally ring a lot, sometimes 100s, January to April at our feeders, but they didn't show up this year. Quite a good spread of species mostly in single numbers though. One group of five Swallows flew around for a while before moving south. The Peregrine was nearly missed as we were talking to an NDOC member. It must have flown over us since we saw it flying away east, looked to big enough to be a female.