Location: Snelsmore Common Car Park Feeder

Session: 06-Mar-2015 07:40 to 11:20hrs

Weather: Bright, sunny intervals, calm to blustery towards the end of the session

Present: JL, IW

Nets: Two 18’ nets 7’ high Japanese one each side of feeder up from 08:00 to 11:00hrs

Lure: Feeder Fat Balls, Niger, Black Sunflower, Peanuts

Capture 29: Blue Tit 4/6, Coal Tit 1/4, Great Tit 10/4

Recaptures: Blue Tit 1y 53days, 291days and from Box CP23, 3 from 120days, Great Tit 291days and from Box CP16, 120days

Age Range: (1st Winter) Blue Tit 8, Coal Tit 5, Great Tit 9

We don't take many photos of these because we ring so many.

 Blue Tit

Great Tit

Notes: The morning, spring like as yesterday, started very slowly, the first captures 40 minutes into the session. It was intriguing that we captured most of the Great Tits in the early part of the session; blue and coal tit arriving in about the last hour and the majority of the later birds were recaptures. This probably indicates the local birds on territory first thing as the Bagnor session yesterday.

Sightings 25 Species: As yesterday a lot of activity in the trees particularly blue and coal tit. All three tits were singing early morning as were Blackbird, Song Thrush, Mistle Thrush, Robin, Dunnock and Chaffinch.

Blackbird 3 Black-headed Gull 1 Blue Tit 15 Buzzard 2 Carrion Crow 2 Chaffinch 8 Coal Tit 10 Dunnock 1 Goldcrest 1 Goldfinch 3 Great Spotted Woodpecker 2 Great Tit 20 Green Woodpecker 1

Jackdaw 11 Lesser Black-backed Gull 2 Mistle Thrush 1 Nuthatch 2 Red Kite 2 Robin 3 Rook 4 Song Thrush 2 Sparrowhawk 1 Stock Dove 2 Woodpigeon 15 Wren 1