21/06 Thatcham Marsh LNR CES visit 2025.06

Location: Thatcham Marsh LNR CES Visit 2025.06

Session: 21/06/2025 06:00 to 11:10hrs.

Present: IW,LC,RAD.

Weather: Very hot, sunny periods sometime clouding over, calm.

Nets: 198M long reed bed ride up from 06:30 to 10:30hrs.

Lures (): None

Notes: I wasn’t able to stay this visit after nets up, fortunately two ringers and a scribe manage ok. 35 is not a bad total, the average for visit 6 since 1993 being 42. Reed Warbler juveniles dominated and the first juvenile Sedge Warblers of the year ringed. A few spots of rain at nets up and again after nets down and it was hot and muggy.

Recaptures: (09)

Cetti’s Warbler ringed: 30/04/2023.

Reed Warbler ringed: 28/05/2023,10/05/2025,18/05/2025,08/06/2025x2.

Sedge Warbler ringed: 03/05/2025,18/05/2025.

Wren ringed: 06/08/2023.

Sightings: IW’s list, lots of butterfly on the wing.