13/04 Thatcham Marsh LNR

Location: Thatcham Marsh LNR

Session: 13/04/2025 07:00 to 11:30hrs.

Present: IW,JL,RAD,IQ,DL.

Weather: bright, sunny, clear, warm, breezy

Nets: 198M long reed bed ride up from 07:30 to 11:00hrs.

Lures ():, None

Notes: 23 birds included a Blue Tit ringed in DL’s garden in 2021 as well as the anticipated Sedge and Reed Warblers. A steady session and think the cut along the 1A part of the ride may be reducing the capture. The next session in May will be Constant Effort Site Visit One and the phragmites should have grown considerably and hopefully enough to attract more  acrocephalus warblers.

Recaptures: (06)

Blue Tit   ringed: 19/12/2021-(DL's place), 10/09/2023.

Cetti’s Warbler ringed: 30/04/2023, 06/10/2024.

Dunnock ringed: 25/08/2024.

Reed Warbler ringed: 28/05/2023.

Sightings: A good species total included Reed and Sedge Warbler, Garden Warbler and Willow Warbler; the last is scarce here over the last 5 or more years except for a few on passage. Heard the Water Rails at nets down.