19/08 Greenham Common

Location: Greenham Common - Western Enclosure wk 2025-34

Session: 19/08/2025 07:45 to 11:00hrs

Notes: The heath was relatively quiet today with fewer birds about. Best species - Garden Warbler, in three weeks they will have all left for Africa for the Winter. Was in Corfu this time last year so no matching 2024 visits for week 34.

Present: JL,IW,NC.

Weather: overcast, calm early light breeze later, cool.

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

Lures audio: (BC-CC-FC-GC-GW-WH-LW-WO),(YW-WC-W.-TP-RT-RZ),(GH),(RT) intermittently. 

Recaptures: (00)

Sightings: The Swift was the best bird seen, its flight action seems a little wobbly which we thought might indicate it to be a recently fledged bird, its parents have already left forcing it to fledge. Not much else except a small flock of racing pigeons as opposed to feral birds flew north.