14/09 Thatcham Marsh LNR

Location: Thatcham Marsh LNR

Session: 14/09/2025 07:00 to 11:15hrs.

Present: JHW,IW,KMB.

Weather: sunny periods, calm, warm.

Nets: 36+36 metre nets along the reed bed ride & 12m scrub ride up from 07:30 to 11:00hrs.

Lures (audio): (BC-CC-FC-GC-GW-WH-LW-WO) intermittently.

Recently deceased Water Shrew; species last record here by NRG 19/06/2022

Notes: Good numbers of Chiffchaff and Blackcap and the second Kingfisher of the year. The most notable element of the session is probably the Water Shrew as above.

FG=age indeterminate

Recaptures: (04)

Chiffchaff            ringed: 08/05/2022, 07/09/2025

Great Tit             ringed: 29/06/2025

Treecreeper       ringed: 13/04/2025

Sightings: No waterfowl recorded?