Location: Snelsmore Common Car Park Feeder

Session: 25-Jan-2015 07:50 to 11:20hrs

Weather: Cold around freezing, didn’t warm up until around 10:30hrs

Present: JL, IW, JHW, DL

Nets: 3 net rides 40’ and two 18’ each side of feeders, up from 08:00 to 11:00hrs

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

Capture54: Blue Tit 12/18, Chaffinch 2/0, Coal Tit 10/5, Great Tit 3/4

Recaptures: (Pulli Nest Box Number)
Blue Tit1y 233 (CP26), 1y 34days, 1y 13days, 257days (CP24), 251days (CP23-2, WH06,WH25)
Coal Tit 1y 354days, 1y 48days
Great Tit 257days (WH05)

Others less than 100days.

Age Range: (1st Winter) Blue Tit 83%, Chaffinch 2, Coal Tit 93%, Great Tit 3

Notes: Two Chaffinch released un-ring due to papillomas virus infected legs; Nuthatches and Great Spotted Woodpeckers about but avoiding feeder; noticeable that late arriving birds included some ringed as pulli at Winterbourne Holt; still quite a few un-ringed Coal Tits and fewer Great tits than normal for this site.

Sightings 22 Species: Not much moving generally

Sparrowhawk 1 Black-headed Gull 14 Stock Dove 1 Woodpigeon 30+ Great Spotted Woodpecker 2 Magpie 2 Jay 3 Jackdaw 7+ Rook 24 Carrion Crow 6 Goldcrest 2

Blue Tit 35+ Great Tit 12+ Coal Tit 20+ Marsh Tit 1 Long-tailed Tit 8 Nuthatch 2 Wren 1 Blackbird 3 Mistle Thrush 2 Robin 2 Chaffinch 7