Location: Greenham Common 616 Feeder

Session: 18-Jan-2015 07:40 to 11:20hrs

Weather: Not as cold as forecast, drizzle stopped about 07:45hrs, calm with light cold gusts of wind towards the end of the session, mostly overcast with some sunny periods later.

Present: JL, IW, JHW, DL, RGS

Nets: 3 nest rides: one 40’, one 30’ and one 60’+40’ up from 08:00 to 11:00hrs.

Lure: Feeders: nyger, black sunflower, peanut and mixed seed.

Capture: 32 new/recapture

Blue Tit 1/15, Chaffinch 1/0, Dunnock 2/1, Goldfinch 4/2, Great Spotted Woodpecker 0/2, Great Tit 2/2,

Wren 0/1

Recaptures:
Blue Tit 2y 162days, 1y 349days, 1y 227days (pulli from PK21), 1y 69 days-2,
Great Spotted Woodpecker 3y 57 days
Great Tit 1y 55d
Others Recent (less than 100days)

Age Range: 1st Winter
Blue Tit 50%, Chaffinch 1, Dunnock 2, Goldfinch 5, Great Tit 3, Great Spotted Woodpecker 1, Wren 1

Notes: Quiet for the time of year with no winter finches and few winter thrushes in the area and fewer tits than usual coming to the feeder; many seem to be more aware of the nets than usual.

Sightings 33 Species: a few gulls moving south, one or two species singing.

Blackbird 6 Black-headed Gull 10+ Blue Tit 25+ Bullfinch 5 Carrion Crow 5 Chaffinch 8+ Coal Tit 1+ Cormorant 2+ Dunnock 3 Goldcrest 1 Golden Plover 27 Goldfinch 11+ Great Spotted Woodpecker 3 Great Tit 10+ Green Woodpecker 1 Greenfinch 10+ Grey Heron 1

Jackdaw 3 Jay 1 Lesser Black-backed Gull 9 Magpie 4 Marsh Tit 1 Mistle Thrush 3 Mute Swan 7 Pheasant 1 Red Kite 1 Redwing 1 Robin 6 Song Thrush 2 Sparrowhawk 1 Stock Dove 1 Woodpigeon 10+ Wren 3