22/02 Greenham Common

Location: Greenham Common Feeder.

Session: 22/02/2026 07:45 to 11:30hrs

Present: JHW, JL, IW.

Weather: very light rain early, overcast with some blue later, light breeze, cool.

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

Lures (Feeder): two sunflower heart feeders and a peanut feeder.

Great Tit – female.

Notes: Light rain about 07:45 but soon stopped so we put up the feeder nets and had a steady capture flow throughout the session. Mostly new birds early with re-traps arriving mid-session onwards. Fewer Greenfinch and Goldfinch about than expected. As we were expecting it to rain at any time we surprisingly managed to complete the whole four hour session. Last year’s matching session (also a full session) was very quiet in comparison and included in addition to the feeder nets two scrub nets!

FG =age indeterminate

Recaptures: (10)

Blue Tit ringed: 28/01/2024, 26/10/2025x2, 09/11/2025, 23/11/2025 16/02/2026.

Great Tit ringed: 05/11/2023, 26/10/2025x2, 16/12/2025.

Sightings: IW’s list – Song Thrushes singing also Dunnocks on territories around the feeder.. Occasionally Woodlark heard in the distance singing out on the common. Some waterfowl movement and flying about, geese in small groups. Buzzard display included talon grappling. Siskin over in one flock, Lesser Repoll singletons - may have one or two more. Chiffchaff in full song late in the session.