12/01 Greenham Common

Location: Greenham Common Western Enclosure Week 02
Session: 12/01/2022, 07:45 to 10:50hrs

Notes:  The weather forecast Sunday showed Wednesday was going to be clear sunny day, so we decided to do a January visit to the enclosure just to see what was about. I was a bit late getting onto the common, had to thaw out the gate combination lock using the heat of my hands, not a nice experience. Apart from the Blackbird and Goldcrest the only small birds seen to fly across the heath were two high flying Great Tits. Two of the IPhone players spontaneously discharged from 95%+ when I turned them on and got a bit hot. There was little interest in the Redwing audio from the flock that spent much of the period in the woodland to the northwest. It was pleasant in the winter sun, cheered me up.

Present: JL,IW
Weather: clear, sunny, ground frost, cold calm.
Nets: 48metres in 3 rides of 18M, 18M, 12M up from 08:10 to 10:30hrs
Lures Audio:  BC-CC-FC-GC, Yellow-browed Warbler, BR-LR-SK, FF-RE, MP

Sightings: Two Dartford Warblers flitted about the gorse. The Redwings were in two flocks, one flock came in from the south perched in a tree on the heath before flying to join the others in the trees along the north woodland margin. There was a  noticeable lack of finch species, only Linnet detected including a flock of about 50 seen on the way to site just outside the watching area.