19/07 Greenham Common

Location: Greenham Common Western Enclosure wk29

Session: 19/07/2024 07:30 to 11:00hrs

Notes: a least we ringed a few Garden Warbler today and a Willow Warbler. Maybe they are moving late following first breeding attempt failures caused by the wet weather and hopefully any second attempts will be more successful. Looking at the table below perhaps its just a poor year or our visits have only occasional pick up a passage movement.

Present: JL,IW.

Weather: sunny bright, calm, hot

Nets: 48metres 3 Rides, up from 08:00 to 10:30 hrs.

Lures audio: (Warbler), (Misc Migrants), (RT), (GH) intermittently.

Recaptures: (00) None

Sightings: Just one large flock of Jackdaw out towards the west today. IW saw a Spotted Flycatcher before I arrived just to the west of the enclosure moving west along a line of bushes; unfortunately, the lures didn’t call it back towards us. The female Sparrowhawk soared quite high up, harassed by unidentifiable small finch types and a Swallow. It made us realise how big the female Goshawk was that we saw Tuesday. Otherwise, quiet most birds staying out of the heat. The few insect that were about were fast, moving supercharged by the hot weather.