Location: Snelsmore Common Car Park Feeder

Session: 04-Dec-2014 07:45 to 11:20hrs
Weather: dull overcast poor light cool, colder later, calm
Present: JL
Nets: two 18’ nets, one each side of feeder, up from 08:00 until 11:00hrs
Lure: Feeder; Peanuts, Black Sun Flower Seeds, Nyger, Fat-balls
Capture: 68 Blue Tit 22&20, Coal Tit 4&6, Great Tit 5&11
Recaptures: Blue Tit 2y 294days, 1y 180days, 1 12days 361days, 312days, 274 days, 199days(6)
Coal Tit 2y 16days, 326days, 312days, 308days
Great Tit 205days, 189days
Pulli Blue Tit from Mount Hill Box A01, Snelsmore Car Park Boxes CP23(2), Winterbourne Holt Boxes WH06(3), WH25. Great Tit Car Park Box CP05, Winterbourne Holt Box  WH05
Age Range: Adults: Blue Tit 31%, Coal Tit 40%, Great Tit 13%
Notes: Quite a busy morning and not much variety, not sure why Nuthatch and Great Spotted Woodpecker didn’t come to the feeder; they were nearby in the trees. It is interesting that some of the ringed pulli have stayed together.

Sightings: Species 18 (not a full list)

Blue Tit 50+ Bullfinch 2+ Buzzard 1 Carrion Crow 2+ Chaffinch 3+ Coal Tit 15+ Dunnock 2+ Great Spotted Woodpecker 3+ Great Tit 20+

Jackdaw 5+ Jay 2+ Marsh Tit 1+ Nuthatch 3+ Robin 2+ Siskin 3+ Treecreeper 2+ Woodpigeon 10+ Wren 3+