28/07 Greenham Common

Location: Greenham Common Western Enclosure Week 30

Session: 28/07/2021, 07:20 to 10:45hrs

Notes: Conditions not good with a strong breeze. One or two bounced out of the nets due to

the swirling wind. No Chiffchaff captured today.

Present: JL, IW

Weather: Cloudy, breezy, light rain late in session, cool

Nets: 48metres in 3 rides of 18M, 18M, 12M up from 07:45 to 10:30hrs

Lures Audio: Warblers, Misc Migrants, Hirundine(part), Redstart, Grasshopper Warbler(part)

Recaptures:(none) 

Blackcap: the bird recaptured Monday 26/07/2021 that had been ringed elsewhere was

ringed on the10/07/2021 at West Down Plantation. near Tilshead, Wiltshire

Sightings 30 species: Over about 10 minutes there was a steady movement of Swifts

southwest along a rain front moving towards us from the southwest. A Kestrel flew north, the

first we have seen here for a few weeks. We flushed two Woodlark on a walk around the

enclosure, disappointingly we have not seen any family parties of the latter this end of the

common this year.