21/01 Snelsmore Common

Location: Greenham Feeder

Session: 21/01/2024 07:45 to 11:10hrs

Notes: A quiet session compared to recent visits to this feeder when the total per session has been around double today's 30 total. A significant drop in Blue Tits coming. Wonder where they are as we have been getting around 50 and more every session this winter since November and at the Bagnor feeder. Maybe they perished in the cold temperatures of the last few days, hopefully they have moved elsewhere. A new Marsh Tit probably the highlight of the session.

Present: JL,IW,JHW,DL,LC.

Weather: mostly overcast, breezy, cool.

Nets: 12M of nets, 6M each side of the feeders up from 08:00 to 11:00hrs.

Lures: Feeders with Fat Balls, Sunflower Hearts, Peanuts.

Recaptures:(17) note prefixes CP and WH Snelsmore Common, others Bagnor Mount Hill.

Blue Tit    ringed: 06/11/2022, 02/01/2023, 19/11/2023x2, 10/12/2023x4, 15/12/2023 Bagnor, 07/01/2024.

                pulli ringed: 27/05/2023 nest box WH21.

Coal Tit   ringed: 07/01/2024

Great Tit ringed: 19/02/2023, 05/11/2023

               pulli ringed: 24/05/2023-box CP23, 24/05/2023-box CP28, 27/05/2023-box CP17

Sighting: Not too many birds about, at least two Siskins over early, Sparrowhawk was mobbed by a crow.