Session: 30-Oct-2014 Greenham Common Western Enclosure

Todays Blackcap

Weather: Overcast light wind brighter later
Present: JL,IW
Nets: 3 net rides; 60.60.40 nets up from 07:30 to 11:00hrs
Lure: Audio
Capture: 10 Blackcap-1, Blue Tit-5, Chiffchaff-1, Goldcrest-1, Song Thrush-1
Recaptures: Blue Tit from 2013  (426 days)
Age Range: Adults Blue Tit 3, Chiffchaff-1, 1st winter Blackcap-1, Blue Tit-2 Goldcrest-1, Song Thrush-1
Notes: Very slow start to the morning with no captures until 08:45hrs when a Blackcap followed by a Chiffchaff turned up. There were a few Blackbirds on heath, small numbers of Redwings flying about. At around 10:00 two flocks (15+18) of Lesser Redpoll dropped out of the sky in to treetops.
 
Location: Greenham Common West
Sightings: for Thursday 30th October 2014 07:00 to 11:30hrs

Blackbird 8 Blackcap 1 Black-headed Gull 7 Blue Tit 10 Bullfinch 2 Carrion Crow 6 Chaffinch 5 Chiffchaff 1 Dartford Warbler 1 Dunnock 1 Goldcrest 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker 4 Great Tit 3 Green Woodpecker 3 Greenfinch 2 Jackdaw 47 Jay 2

Kestrel 1 Lesser Black-backed Gull 4 Lesser Redpoll 33 Linnet 3 Long-tailed Tit 4 Magpie 6 Meadow Pipit 5 Pheasant 1 Pied Wagtail (yarrellii) 3 Red Kite 1 Redwing 9 Robin 7 Skylark 3 Song Thrush 3 Starling 18 Woodpigeon 40 Wren 3

Total Number Species 34