08/01 Snelsmore Common Feeder

Location: Snelsmore Common Feeder - CES 2025/26.08 Visit.

Session: 08/02/2026 07:45 to 11:30hrs

Present: JHW, JL, IW.

Weather: calm, cool, overcast with a couple of sunny spells.

Nets: 6+6M feeder nets up from 08:00 to 11:00hrs.

Lures (Feeder): fat balls, sunflower hearts, peanuts.

One of today’s Siskin – an adult male 2nd winter bird

Notes: Once again the rain forecasted didn’t materialise. It was a quietish session with a steady flow of birds throughout. This was the last required visit here for this winter’s Constant Effort Site. Three possibly four Siskins coming to the feeder included a re-trap from CES visit 2025/26.07. 

Recaptures: (23)

Blue Tit ringed: 10/12/2023, 03/11/2024, 17/11/2024, 02/11/2025x4, 16/11/2025x2, 30/11/2025, 28/12/2025, 11/01/2026x3, 25/01/2026x4.

Coal Tit ringed: 12/11/2024, 25/01/2026

Great Tit ringed: 02/11/2025, 28/12/2025.

Siskin ringed: 25/01/2026.

Sightings: mostly IW’s list – not much movement, a few early birds singing including Song Thrush and Dunnock. Mallards, two males and a female were swimming on floods to the west of the feeders. Raven(s) heard calling briefly once mid-session.