Location: Thatcham
Marsh LNR
Session: 12-Apr-2015 07:30 to
10:45hrs
Weather: Bright sunny calm to
start very windy after about 09:00 hrs
Present: JL, IW,JHW, JPM
Nets: 4 nets rides
consisting of 360’+300, 40’, 40’, 30’’ up from 07:45 to 10:15hrs
Lure: None
Capture 14 : Blackbird 1/0,
Blackcap 0/1, Blue Tit 1/1, Bullfinch 0/1, Cetti’s Warbler 1/3, Chaffinch 1/0,
Chiffchaff 0/1, Long-tailed Tit 0/2, Robin 1/0; some resident species in
breeding condition; (CP or BPs
Recaptures: Blackcap 237 days;
ringed at Brimpton GPs 18-Aug-2014, Blue Tit 217days, Bullfinch 344 days, Cetti’s
Warbler 294 days, 260 days, 217 days, Chiffchaff 321 days, Long-tailed Tit 301
days,189 days, others less than 100 days.
Age Range (1st Winter) :Blackbird
1, Blackcap 1, Blue Tit 2, Chaffinch 1; other adult or indeterminate
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| Blackcap female ringed 18-Aug-2014, Brimpton GPs Recaptures today Thatcham LNR. |
Notes: Late start, (due to
car break down) and tangled net, good conditions early, from about 08:30 the
wind got progressively stronger and we stopped at about 10:15hrs The wind snapped
a mist net pole when nets being taken down.
Sightings 38 Species: Sedge
Warbler and Grasshopper Warbler singing early but had move on by the first
round and not heard again, Other warblers singing for the whole session.
Swallow was a flyover, Pochard pair plus one on the nearby pool.
Blackbird 6
Blackcap 5
Black-headed Gull 8
Blue Tit 4
Buzzard 1
Canada Goose 6
Carrion Crow 3
Cetti's Warbler 6
Chaffinch 3
Chiffchaff 5
Collared Dove 1
Coot 2
Cormorant 1
Dunnock 1
Gadwall 2
Goldcrest 2
Grasshopper Warbler 1
Great Tit 2
Green Woodpecker 2
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Greenfinch 2
Jackdaw 2
Kestrel 2
Jay 2
Little Grebe 1
Long-tailed Tit 2
Magpie 3
Mallard 2
Moorhen 2
Pochard 3
Reed Bunting 3
Robin 4
Sedge Warbler 3
Song Thrush 2
Swallow2
Water Rail 2
Willow Warbler 3
Woodpigeon 10
Wren 3
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