21/11 Bagnor Feeder

Location: Bagnor Common Feeder, Winter CES 2023/24.02
Session: 21/11/2023  07:45 to 11:20hrs
Notes: A busy start to the morning with 29 birds in the first nets round, mostly Blue Tits including some pulli from both the Mount Hill and Snelsmore Common nest boxes. After the  next round of 17 the following three rounds were single figure. Not much variety, I though having to feed sunflower hearts (thanks Putin) might bring in some finches. It was dark dank miserable weather with some fine rain in the later part of the session. Having some trouble with the BTO portal can’t get it to filter by date at the moment.

 

Schedule of key species (New and Re-trap) for visit 2 at this Constant Effort Site feeder.

Present: JL,IW
Weather: overcast, calm, occasional drizzle, cool.
Nets: 12M of nets, 6M each side of the feeders up from 08:00 to 11:00hrs.
Lures: Feeders with Peanuts, Sunflower Hearts, Niger, Fat Balls.

Recaptures:(04)

Blue Tit                ringed: 05/02/2023 (Snelsmore Fdr), 09/11/2022, 07/11/2023x7,
pulli ringed: 25/05/2021 nest box CP25, 14/05/2022 nest box WH08, 23/05/2023 nest box C05,

Great Tt              ringed: 05/11/2023, 23/05/2023 nest box D08

Sighting: Probably missed a few as we were busy ringing for the early part of the session, included a flock of about 8+ ducks that snuck by before we could ID them; I thought they might be Wigeon but couldn’t be sure. No Robins about!, if they were there they kept very quiet. One flock of 15+ Siskin, plus others flying about.