Location: Greenham
Common Feeder
Session: 22-Mar-2015 07:15 to
11:20
Weather: Overcast to start,
later sunny periods but throughout a gusty cold wind.
Present: JL, DL, IW, RGS, JPM
Nets: 4 net rides 18’, 40’,
60+40’ 30’ up from 08:00 to 11:00hrs.
Lure: Feeders 4 Nyger,
Black Sunflower, Peanut
Capture 20 : Blue Tit 1/1, Dunnock
0/1, Goldfinch 9/2, Greenfinch 1/0, Great Tit 1/4
Recaptures: Great Tit 1y 206days,
154days; others less than 100 days
Age Range: (1st Winter) Blue Tit 2, Goldfinch 9, Greenfinch 1, Great Tit 3
Goldfinch: the only species being captured in numbers
Notes: Not many birds coming
to the feeder, nets a bit visible in the windy conditions. The arrival of the donkey
and trap group broke the monotony of what could have seemed a long morning.
Sightings 33 Species: Chiffchaff
singing contrasted with a couple of 20 strong flocks of Redwing; the change from
winter to summer underway.
Blackbird
9
Blue
Tit 8+,
Brambling
1
Bullfinch
4
Buzzard
2
Carrion
Crow 7
Chaffinch
9+
Chiffchaff
3
Cormorant
1
Dunnock
3
Goldcrest
1,
Goldfinch
20+
Great
Spotted Woodpecker 1
Great
Tit 10+
Green
Woodpecker 1
Greenfinch
7+
Grey
Heron 1
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Jackdaw
13
Jay 1
Kestrel
1
Lesser
Black-backed Gull 2
Long-tailed
Tit 3
Magpie
2
Meadow
Pipit 2
Mistle
Thrush 1
Mute
Swan 1
Red
Kite 2
Redwing
43
Robin
5
Song
Thrush 3
Wood
Pigeon 15+
Woodlark
1
Wren
3
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