Location: Thatcham
Marsh LNR
Session: 26-Apr-2015 07:00 to
11:00 hrs
Weather: overcast, cold, breezy
at times
Present: JL, IW, DL, JHW, JPM
Nets: 5 rides; 360+300’, 60’,
60’, 40’, 30’ up from 07:30 to 10:30 hrs
Lure: None
Capture 23 : Blackcap 1/1, Blue
Tit 2/2, Cetti’s Warbler 0/2, Chiffchaff 0/2, Reed Bunting 0/1, Reed Warbler
1/1, Sedge Warbler 7/0, Song Thrush 2/0, Wren 0/1
Recaptures: Blue Tit 287 &
203 days, Cetti’s Warbler 308 & 287 days, Chiffchaff 1y 230 days & 308
days, Reed Bunting 4y 360 days, Reed Warbler 1y 273 days, Wren 1y 237 days; others
less than 100 days
Age Range: (1st winter) Blackcap
2, Song Thrush 2; others adult or indeterminate
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| One of the first Reed Warblers of the year |
Notes: An unpromising
weather forecast, not to bad in the end it was cold though! A reasonable capture of Sedge Warbler
and the first Reed Warbler captures of the year. " Intruders" had ripped up the plank we added to the jetty, to cover rotting timbers. They used it to bridge the gap and gained access to the reed bed ride. Fortunately no other damage done.
Sightings 36 Species: Little movement over, expected to see hirundine etc flying over but could only manage a few black-headed gulls, 3 cuckoos is good for here these days; about 10 years ago 8 was a low count. On the way out a call-in at the Nature Discovery Centre Lake included seeing a couple of swifts, about 10 swallows and a few house martins. Earlier snipe, sand martin and common tern had been seen.
Blackbird
2
Black-headed
Gull 6
Blue
Tit 5
Buzzard
1
Canada
Goose 2
Carrion
Crow 2
Cetti's Warbler 6
Chaffinch
5
Chiffchaff
4
Coot
2
Cormorant
2
Cuckoo
3
Dunnock
3
Gadwall
5
Garden
Warbler 1
Goldcrest
1
Great
Spotted Woodpecker 1
Great
Tit 2
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Green Woodpecker 2
Greenfinch
2
Jackdaw
8
Jay 2
Little
Grebe 1
Magpie
3
Mallard
3
Moorhen
1
Reed
Bunting 4
Reed
Warbler 4
Robin
5
Sedge
Warbler 10
Song
Thrush 3
Sparrowhawk
1
Tufted
Duck 2
Whitethroat
1
Willow
Warbler 1
Woodpigeon
10
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