15/09 Greenham Common

Location: Greenham Common Western Enclosure Week 37
Session: 15/09/2021, 07:30 to 11:00hrs
Notes: A good session with one capture of 20 nearly all Blackcaps. A steady trickle of Chiffchaffs through the enclosure for much of the morning. Interestingly we seem to be capturing a few Dunnocks over the last five or six sessions.
Present: JL,IW
Weather: overcast, with some sunny periods, light north northeast breeze, cool  
Nets: 48metres in 3 rides of 18M, 18M, 12M up from 08:00 to 10:30hrs
Lures Audio: Audio – Sylvia and Phylos Warblers, Crests, Yellow-browed Warbler, Grasshopper Warbler, Scarce Summer Migrants (chats, pipits, thrushes etc)

Recaptures:(03)

Chiffchaff                 ringed: 23/06/2021, 13/07/2021

                                  ringed elsewhere: 25/07/2021 Thatcham Marsh LNR

Sightings: Two high flying Collared Doves Southwest is unusual, and three Wheatear ventured  out to the western end of the common, seen on the ground and then on top of a bush just east of the enclosure.