Location: Snelsmore Common Feeder

Session: 10-Feb-2015 07:50 to 11:20hrs

Weather: Overcast, dank, cold, calm.

Present: JL, IW

Nets: two 10’ one each side of feeder

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

Capture 52: Blue Tit 14/21, Coal Tit 8/4, Great Tit 2/2, Robin 1/0

Recaptures (nest box): Blue Tit 4y 126days, 3y 79days, 2y 121days, 1y 64days, 1y 50days-3, 333days, 273days-2 (CP24), 267days (WH21) Great Tit 3y 177days. Others less than 100days

Age Range: 1st Winter Blue Tit 63%, Coal Tit 12, Great Tit 1

Notes: A slow start then a steady flow of captures, Great Tit numbers have dropped here now, other species scarce in area of feeder.

Sightings 17 Species: Very little movement, a few species in song,

Blackbird 3 Black-headed Gull 21 Blue Tit 45 Carrion Crow 1 Chaffinch 3 Coal Tit 15 Goldcrest 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker 2 Great Tit 5

Jackdaw 5 Lesser Black-backed Gull 1 Magpie 2 Marsh Tit 1 Nuthatch 2 Robin Rook 20 Woodpigeon 5