Location: Bagnor  Feeder

Session: 05-Feb-2015 07:45hrs to 11:15hrs

Weather: Not at cold as earlier in the week, above freezing, one or two snow flurries, overcast.

Present: JL

Nets: two 18’ nets one each side of feeder up from 08:00 to 11:00hrs

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

Capture40: Blue Tit 15/16, Dunnock 1/0, Great Tit 4/3, MT 0/1

Recaptures: Box No shown if pulli:
Blue Tit   1y 250days-B03, 1y 15days, 344days, 338days,266days-C02, 262 days-WH12,
              260days-B05, 256daysCP03, 246days(2)C02 & D09
              all other less than 100days

Age Range: 1st Winter: Blue Tit 65%, Great Tit 71%; Dunnock, Marsh Tit aged 4 (FG) only

Notes: It wasn’t as cold as I expected; fingers got cold and functioned just! A steady flow of mostly Blue Tits is the norm for this site for this winter period so far; finches seem to have gone elsewhere, probably got a better offer somewhere, like my garden where they have moved to the garden over the road!.

Sightings 27 Species: Busy ringing so probably missed a few.

Blackbird 5 Black-headed Gull 20 Blue Tit 40 Buzzard 2 Carrion Crow 2 Chaffinch 5 Coal Tit 1 Dunnock 2 Fieldfare 4 Goldfinch 4 Great Spotted Woodpecker 2 Great Tit 10 Green Woodpecker 1 Jackdaw 5

Jay 1 Kestrel 1 Kingfisher 1 Little Egret 2 Marsh Tit 1 Moorhen 5 Nuthatch 1 Pheasant 8 Red Kite 1 Robin 3 Rook 1 Woodpigeon 70 Wren 4