Location: Bagnor Feeder

Session: 17-Feb-2015 07:45 to 11:20hrs

Weather: Ground frost early, bright, sunny and warmish for the time of year, calm but breezy later

Present: JL,IW,RGS

Nets: An 18’ net each side of feeder.

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

Capture 10: Blue Tit 6/2, Great Tit 1/1

Recaptures: Blue Tit 1y 258days (DO2), Great Tit 294days (CP22) Other less than 100days

Age Range: 1st Winter Blue Tit 6, Great Tit 2

Notes: Very quiet at the feeder, most birds presumed to be on territory or feeding in the trees, very little going to or around the feeder, some finch activity near the feeder first thing.

Sightings: 34 Species: Mostly crow and pigeon activity with buzzard up on the warm air later.

Mallard 13 Blackbird 3 Black-headed Gull 170+ Blue Tit 20+ Buzzard 3 Carrion Crow 4 Chaffinch 4 Coal Tit 1 Dunnock 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker 2 Great Tit 7+ Green Woodpecker 1 Greenfinch 6 Grey Heron 1 Jackdaw 20+ Jay 1+ Kestrel 1

Lesser Black-backed Gull 9+ Little Egret 2 Magpie 2+ Marsh Tit 1 Mistle Thrush 1 Nuthatch 1+ Pheasant 6+ Red Kite 2 Red-legged Partridge 2 Robin 6 Rook 8+ Siskin 1+ Skylark 1 Song Thrush 2 Stock Dove 2 Woodpigeon 100+ Wren 1