Location: Snelsmore Common Feeder

Session: 19-Mar-2015 07:30 to 11:15hrs

Weather: overcast, cold, dank, light cold breeze

Present: JL

Nets: two 18’ one each side of feeders

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

Capture 36: Blue Tit 3/5, Chaffinch 1/0, Coal Tit 3/5, Dunnock 1/0, Great Tit 5/6, Long-tailed Tit 6/0, Nuthatch 0/1

Recaptures: Blue Tit 3y 6days, 1y 101days, 105days, Coal Tit 1y 101days(2), Great Tit 320days from nest box B01, 133days(3), Nuthatch 1y 289days from nest box CP35 others less than 100days.

Age Range: (1st winter) Blue Tit 3(38%), Coal Tit 6, Great Tit 10

Long-tailed Tit not many of these about this winter

Notes: Compared to yesterday a cold winter day with a steady flow of birds to the feeder. Thought just two Long-tailed Tits were coming to the feeder during the last week or so but 3 pairs captured at different times in the morning.

Sightings 18 Species: A little activity and some song, think the raven is nesting nearby

Blue Tit 12 Buzzard 2 Carrion Crow 1 Chaffinch 3 Coal Tit 12 Dunnock 1 Goldcrest 1 Goldfinch 2  Great Tit 15

Long-tailed Tit 6 Mistle Thrush 1 Nuthatch 3 Raven 1 Red Kite 1 Robin 1 Song Thrush 2 Woodpigeon 5 Wren 1