26/08 Greenham Common

Location: Greenham Common Western Enclosure Week 34
Session: 26/08/2021, 07:30 to 11:10hrs
Notes: A disappointing session, it was windy when I looked out of the window at home, and it  began to drizzle as I drove along Burys Bank Road, but it had stopped by the time I reached the enclosure, so we persevered. We didn’t capture any birds for the first hour and a half and then it was just a Chiffchaff and a Blackcap. Towards the end of the session, it brightened up and birds began to move through the enclosure. However, the wind persisted, and we captured the other six birds in the last 20 minutes of the session. Not ringing tomorrow.
Present: JL,IQ
Weather: overcast and strong northerly breeze, warm, sunny periods late in session
Nets: 48metres in 3 rides of 18M, 18M, 12M up from 08:00 to 10:30hrs
Lures Audio: Warblers, Misc Migrants, Hirundine, Redstart, Grasshopper Warbler

Sightings:  Not much noticed, there must be stubble fields somewhere over to the south where the Canada Geese are coming from, probably heading to Lower Farm GP for drink after a night-time feed. MD reported a Whinchat out on the main heath.