26/01 Bagnor Feeder

Location: Bagnor Feeder

Session: 26/01/2024 07:45 to 11:10hrs CES 2023/24/06

Notes: Another busy session processing Blue Tits, in addition five Great Tits, also a Goldfinch a Long-tailed Tit and a Siskin; would be good if ringed few more Siskin before the end of this winter. Siskin last ringed by Newbury Ringing Group at Haysoms March 2023, at Snelsmore Common March 2019, Bagnor December 2019 and at the Greenham feeder April 2016.

Present: JL,IW.

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 Peanuts, Sunflower Hearts, Niger, Fat Balls.

Recaptures:(26) nest box prefixes CP and WH Snelsmore Common, others Bagnor Est Mount Hill.

Blue Tit        ringed: 09/11/2022x2, 10/02/2023x2, 21/03/2023, 07/11/2023, 21/11/2023x2,             15/02/2023x4, 12/01/2023.

                    pulli ringed: 20/05/2023x2-nest box WH13, 23/05/2023-box F07, 24/05/2023-boxCP22, 26/05/2023x3-boxC03, 26/05/2023-box D11, 27/05/2023-box WH21.

Great Tit      ringed: 12/01/2023

                    pulli ringed: 30/05/2023-box F06.

LOTTI         ringed: 07/11/2023  

Sighting: Ringing took up most of our attention so missed a few birds and species. It's a while since we have had time to do our usual walk around the field. The Woodpigeons were flying north in smallish groups early in the session. Moorhen and Redwing heard calling from the cress bed scrub. Buzzard seen at the Lambourn/Bagnor road turning. Skylarks singing, drifting over from Mount Hill.