Location: Snelsmore Common Car Park Feeder

Session: 11-Jan-2015 07:45 to 11:20hrs

Weather: Sunny periods, wind gusting, getting colder

Present: JL, IW, DL, JPM, JHW   

Nets: 3 nets,  an 18’ each side of the feeder and a 40' nearby.

Lure: Feeders, Fat Ball, Nyger, Black Sunflower, Peanuts

Capture (new/recapture): 51 Blackbird 1/1, Blue Tit 12/10, Coal Tit 4/7, Great Tit 9/7

Recaptures: Blackbird 364days, Blue Tit 318days, Coal Tit 1y 332days, Great Tit 2y 66days,
2y 21days,1y 20days
Pulli Blue Tit 1 from CP12 1y 215days, 2 from WH06 237day. Great Tit from Mount Hill A05 1y 221days

Age Range (1st Winter): Blackbird 1, Blue Tit 72%, Coal Tit 10, Great Tit 56%
Age range changed to 1st winter as all are adults (full grown)!

Notes: The wind, although not as strong as forecast at the start, increased and began gusting as the session progress and it grew colder. This feeder is the only one that has “normal” Great Tit numbers.

Sightings 24 species: For Snelsmore there was a lot of bird movement around the feeder area and a steady movement of gulls westerly from dawn, and the first Siskin this winter feeding and chasing high in the trees.

Blackbird 5 Black-headed Gull 50 Blue Tit 35 Buzzard 1 Carrion Crow 3 Chaffinch 10 Coal Tit 15 Dunnock 1 Goldcrest 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker 2 Great Tit 20 Jackdaw 8

Lesser Black-backed Gull 150 Long-tailed Tit 3 Marsh Tit 1 Nuthatch 3 Pheasant 1 Robin 2 Rook 2 Siskin 7 Starling 2 Stock Dove 1 Woodpigeon 100 Wren 2