Location: Snelsmore Common Car Park Feeder

Session: 19-Dec-2014 07:45 to 11:15
Weather: Bright Sunny, cold & windy later
Present: JL, IW, RGS
Nets: 2 nets one each side of the feeder
Lure: Peanut, black sunflower, nyger, fat balls
Capture: 54 Blue Tit 11/15, Coal Tit 11/4, Great Tit 8/4, Nuthatch 1/0
Recaptures:
Blue Tit 1y 199days, 362(2) days, 341days, 220 days, 214 days
Great Tit 1y 363days, 2018 days, 204 days
Pulli Blue Tit from CP02, CP23, CP24
Great Tit from CP05, D02(Mount Hill)
Others recent
Age Range: Adults Blue Tit 42%, Coal Tit 20%, Great Tit 33%

Notes: Not as busy as last time. A Marsh Tit got out of the net before we could get to it, woodpeckers waited for us to leave. A steady flow early followed by a relative pause and a flurry of activity towards the end of the session. Four Gadwall flying over E, a new species for this site?

Sightings: Species 17

Blackbird 1 Blue Tit 30 Chaffinch 5 Coal Tit 18 Dunnock 1 Gadwall 4 Great Spotted Woodpecker 3 Great Tit 15 Jackdaw 1

Lesser Black-backed Gull 44 Marsh Tit 1 Nuthatch 1 Red Kite 1 Redwing 1 Robin 2 Treecreeper 1 Woodpigeon 1