Sunday 8 May 2022

08/05 Thatcham Marsh LNR

Location: Thatcham Marsh LNR CES 2 of 12
Session: 08/05/2022 06:00 to 11:00hrs
Notes: A slow session, the reed bed is quiet still with most acrocephalus currently singing from the reeded stream east of the net ride. Some Reed and Sedge Warblers had newly arrived with no sign of a BP or CP.
Present: JL,DL,IW,JHW,NC
Weather:
 overcast cool calm early sunny light breeze warmer later.
Nets: 228metres in 2 rides, 18Mx11 reed bed plus 12M and a 18M scrub nets up from 06:30 to 10:30 hrs
Lures: None 
 
One of today's male Cetti's Warblers

Recaptures:(19)
Cetti’s Warbler   ringed: 11/04/2021, 25/04/2021, 12/09/2021
Chiffchaff           ringed: 25/04/2021, 14/08/2021, 10/04/2022x2
Reed Bunting    ringed: 30/04/2022
Reed Warbler    ringed: 26/05/2019, 24/04/2021, 12/06/2021, 17/07/2021
Robin                 ringed: 18/04/2021
Sedge Warbler  ringed: 25/04/2021, 17/04/2022x3 

Sightings: 49 Avian Species: Little Egrets and Great Crested Grebe over-flying, a few Swift and Common Tern over and a Kingfisher; the first I have seen for a couple of years. Cuckoos quite active but no Whitethroats located here yet.







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