Location: Snelsmore Common Feeder

Session: 18-Feb-2015 07:50 to 11:20hrs

Weather: Ground frost, colder than yesterday, sunny, bright, 30% cloud, calm, light breeze towards the end of the session.

Present: JL, IW, RGS

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

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

Capture 17: Blue Tit 4/3, Coal Tit 2/4, Great Tit 1/1, Nuthatch 0/1, Robin 0/1

Recaptures: Blue Tit 1y 260days (CP02), Coal Tit 3y 87days, 1y 72days,
Great Tit 1y 257days (WH25), Robin 1y 8days; others less than 100days

Age Range: 1st Winter Blue Tit 5, Coal Tit 5, Nuthatch 1

Notes: Another quiet session at the feeder with most birds feeding in the tops of trees and in the scrub; generally chasing and feeding between periods of little activity.

Sightings 25 Species: Jackdaws and Rooks flying about, a few gulls over, late morning brought raptor activity over a 10 minute period,

Blackbird 1+ Black-headed Gull 10+ Blue Tit 20+ Buzzard 1 Carrion Crow 2+ Chaffinch 5+ Coal Tit 12+ Collared Dove 1 Dunnock 2 Goldcrest 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker 1 Great Tit 5+ Jackdaw 25+

Jay 2 Marsh Tit 1 Nuthatch 3+ Raven 2 Red Kite 1 Robin 4+ Rook 12+ Siskin 3 Song Thrush 1+ Sparrowhawk 1 Woodpigeon 20+ Wren 1+