16/02 Greenham Common

Location: Greenham Common Feeder

Session: 16/02/2025 07:45 to 10:30hrs.

Don’t remember it feeling cold like today even when the Greenham Feeder looked like this (Winter 2017/18)

Notes: It got colder as the session progressed such that we abandoned at 10:15hrs for the good of the birds and ringers. There seemed to be a few more Dunnock than usual coming to the feeder, also one or two Greenfinch. We tried a net in one of the “new” rides made by the hedge-layers, caught one of the Robins and a same day Blue Tit; might do better when it gets warmer.

Present: JL,IW,IQ,CMD.

Weather: overcast, cold, calm.

Nets: 2x6M nets, one each side of feeder, plus a 12M scrub net up from 08:00 to 10:15hrs.

Lures (Feeder):, Niger, Sunflower Hearts, Peanuts

Recaptures: (12) 

Blue Tit   ringed: 17/11/2019, 12/02/2023, 14/01/2024, 13/10/2024x2, 10/11/2024, 02/02/2025,

Great Tit ringed: 03/03/2024, 10/11/2024, 02/02/2025x2.

Sighting: Relatively few Blackbirds about. It was quiet, activity of birds and birders probably

subdued by the cold.