Location: Greenham Common Feeder 616

Session: 21-Dec-2014 07:30 to 11:00hrs
Weather: Overcast cold very windy
Present: JL, IW, DL, JHW
Nets: 5 net rides, 10’, 10’+10’, 30’, 40’ 40’ up from 08:00 until 10:30
Lure: Feeder mixed seed, peanuts, black sunflower seed, nyger seed
Capture: 20
Blackbird 0/1, Blue Tit 4/4, GC 2/0, Goldfinch 3/0, Great Spotted Woodpecker 0/1. Great Tit 0/3, Marsh Tit 0/1, Robin 0/1
Recaptures: Blue Tit 3y 65 days, 336 days Great Tit 1y 307days, 1y 34d, others recent
Age Range: Adults Blue Tit 50%, Goldcrest 1, Great Tit 2, Great Spotted Wood Pecker 1, Marsh Tit 1

Notes: It was to windy really, we tried putting up short 10’ nets around the feeder, but the birds could see them blowing; they poured in as soon as the nets came down. It was also quite cold so we finished early.

Sightings: 29 species
Birds of note; 4 Herring Gulls over south. A Sparrowhawk made a couple of hunting runs through the feeder area, otherwise not a lot about.

Blackbird 6 Blue Tit 15+ Bullfinch 2 Carrion Crow 4 Chaffinch 6 Cormorant 4 Dunnock 1 Goldcrest 2 Golden Plover 23 Goldfinch 22 Great Spotted Woodpecker 3 Great Tit 8+ Green Woodpecker 1 Greenfinch 15 Herring Gull 4

Jackdaw 7 Kestrel 1 Lesser Black-backed Gull 18 Magpie 3 Marsh Tit 1 Mute Swan 7 Pheasant 1 Redwing 48 Robin 4 Song Thrush 1 Sparrowhawk 1 Starling 1 Woodpigeon 15+ Wren 2