Location: Greenham
Common Western Enclosure
Session: 14-April-2015 07:00
to 11:30 hrs
Weather: Sunny at start
followed by gusty swirling mist and back to calm sunny periods.
Present: JL,IW,RGS
Nets: 5 nets rides: 60’, 40’,
60’, 60, 60’ up from 07:40 to 11:10 hrs
Lure: None
Capture 8 : Blackbird 0/1,
Chiffchaff 1/0, Dunnock 1/0, Jay 1/0, Robin 2/0, Whitethroat 1/0, Willow
Warbler 1/0
Recaptures: Blackbird from 7 days
ago
Age Range: (1st Winter) Blackbird, Robin 2 others indeterminate
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| 1st Whitethroat (male) of 2015 |
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| 1st Willow Warbler of 2015 |
Notes: Started later than
intended, birds moving early, 1st Whitethroat and Willow Warbler of the year, Jay was a bit of a handful especially with a little girl and mother watching.
Sightings 35 Species: Yellow
Wagtail a fly over, Whitethroats moved off early, Tree Pipit singing in the
northwest corner of what was the runway overshoot. Elsewhere on the common: 5
Golden Plover and Wheatear on the gravel area west of 616 early morning, Nightingale singing
at the Fire Plane Gravel, Swallows flying through, Wheatear probably in double figures over the whole Common today (7 reported out on the heath). Not seen the Ringed Plover
pair on the Fire Plane Gravel since last Tuesday (7th) when the female
appeared to be laying/sitting. On a walk around yesterday (13th) saw a stunning male
Ring Ouzle; others saw 3! 1 possibly 2 Tree Pipit singing on Brackenhurst
Heath. So a good start to the week.
Blackbird
5
Blue
Tit 4
Bullfinch
2
Buzzard
2
Canada
Goose 2
Carrion
Crow 7
Chaffinch
1
Chiffchaff
4
Dunnock
1
Great
Spotted Woodpecker 1
Great
Tit 2
Green
Woodpecker 2
Greenfinch
4
Jackdaw
5
Jay 2
Kestrel
1
Linnet
15
Long-tailed
Tit 2
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Magpie
3
Mallard
1
Meadow
Pipit 3
Red
Kite 2
Robin
3
Skylark
2
Song
Thrush 1
Stock
Dove 1
Stonechat
4
Swallow
2
Tree Pipit 1
Wheatear
2
Whitethroat 2
Willow Warbler 8
Woodlark
4
Woodpigeon
5
Yellow Wagtail 1
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