Location: Bagnor Feeder

Session: 03-Dec-2014 07:30 to 11:15hrs
Weather: Ground frost, cold, clear, sunny, breezy later
Present: JL,IW,RGS
Nets: 2x18’ one each side of feeders, up from 08:00hrs to 11:00hrs
Lure: Feeder: nyger, black sunflower seeds, fat-balls, peanuts
Capture: 39:  Blue Tit 15&14, Chaffinch 3, Coal Tit 1, Goldfinch 1, Great Spotted Woodpecker 0&1
Great Tit 0&1, Greenfinch 1, Nuthatch 0&2
Recaptures: Blue Tit 2y 317days, 1y 328days, 1y 309days, 1y 179days, 316days, 202days(3), 196days,
Nuthatch 1y 25days.
The rest are recent.
Pulli Blue Tit from 2013 Box C05, 2014 A01, B04, C02, C04
Age Range: Adults Blue Tit 31%, Greenfinch 1, Nuthatch 1
Notes: Cold start and fewer birds about than expected, where were the Great Tits and the usual mob of Goldfinch didn’t turn up; maybe they come later in the day.

Sightings: 34 Species

Blackbird 4 Blue Tit 35 Bullfinch 2 Buzzard 1 Carrion Crow 12 Chaffinch 6 Coal Tit 1 Dunnock 4 Fieldfare 1 Goldfinch 3 Great Spotted Woodpecker 3 Great Tit 2 Green Woodpecker 1 Greenfinch 2 Grey Wagtail 1 Jackdaw 55 Jay 2

Kestrel 1 Lesser Black-backed Gull 50 Little Egret 1 Mallard 1 Moorhen 3 Nuthatch 2 Pheasant 6 Red Kite 2 Redwing 23 Robin 3 Siskin 2 Song Thrush 1 Sparrowhawk 1 Water Rail 1 Woodpigeon 60 Wren 2 Yellowhammer 1