09/11 Greenham Common Feeder

Location: Greenham Common - Estovers Feeder

Session: 09/11/2025 07:40 to 11:45.hrs

Present: JHW,IW,JL,IQ,LC,KMB.

Weather: sunny and calm early. clouding over and breezy later, cool.

Nets: 18+18M feeder nets,18+18+18M scrub nets up from 08:00 to 11:00hrs.

Lures (Feeder): Niger, sunflower hearts, peanuts.

(Audio): GC-BC-FC-CC, RE-FF intermittently.

Notes: A very busy session again at this feeders – double figure nets rounds early followed by a couple of quieter mid-session and 23 birds from the feeder nets at nets down. Two Blackcaps and a Chiffchaff; are they late summer migrants or incoming winter birds? Apart from a couple of locals the Goldfinch flock with a few Greenfinch that featured in the session here on the 26/10/2025 seems to have moved on about a week ago from the numbers seen on recent food top-up visits. The groups 13th Firecrest of the year together with the Blackcaps and Chiffchaff mentioned above plus the Goldcrests were called in to the scrub nets by the Audio lures. A Song Thrush was the first of this species ringed at any sites so far by the groups in 2025. In 2023 and 2024 six were ringed and looking back to earlier decades most years middle double figures were ringed/re-trapped each year; perhaps an indication of the low populations of many soft-bills species now. 

Thanks Linda for the peanut donation that will keep the group in peanuts for our feeders well into next year.

Recaptures: (24)

Blue Tit ringed 30/12/2023, 10/11/2024 16/03/2025, 26/10/2025x14

Goldcrest ringed 26/10/2025

Great Spotted Woodpecker ringed 20/03/2022

Great Tit ringed 26/10/2025x5

Sightings: IW’s list, we were quite busy ringing so probably missed a species or two.