24/10 Snelsmore Common Feeder

Location: Snelsmore Common Feeder
Session: 24/10/2021, 07:30 to 11:20hrs
Notes: The first session at a feeder this winter. Processing 60 birds is a bit different to just a few at most at Greenham Common this time of year. We had some re-traps of pulli ringed this spring in nearby nest boxes and one from further away; Mount Hill on the Bagnor Estate. No Coal Tits is interesting, we normally have relatively good numbers at this feeder. We have a suspicion that they may have had a poor breeding season this year.  
Present: JL,IW,JHW
Weather: Overcast poor light some brightness later, mostly calm, cold.
Nets: 12metres in 2 rides of 6M up from 08:00 to 11:00hrs
Lures: Audio:  Fat Balls, Niger, Black Sunflowers, Peanuts

Recaptures:(14)
Blue Tit           ringed 11/11/2018,
                       pulli    25/05/2021x2 box CP25, 26/05/2021 box A04 (Mount Hill)
                                 29/05/2021x2 box CP28, 2905/2021 box WH09
                                 31/05/2021 box CP03, 31/05/2021 box CP04, 06/06/2021 box CP15
Great Tit        pulli     22/05/2021 box WH05, 22/05/2021 box WH14, 22/05/2021 box WH22
Treecreeper  ringed 10/11/2019

Sightings: Not really much time to count, most species heard only and the tree canopy here limits the field of view; probably missed some species.