Location: Thatcham
Marsh LNR
Session: 19-Apr-2015 07:00 to
10:45
Weather: Mainly overcast with
a few sunny periods, wind light at start breezy later, cool
Present: JL, IW, DL, JHW, RJC,
JPM
Nets: 890’ of mist net in 5 rides 360+300’, 100’, 100’ 40’, 30’ up from
07:30 to 10:00 hrs
Lure: none
Capture 22 : Blackbird 1/1,
Blackcap 2/0, Blue Tit 3/1, Cetti’s Warbler 1/2, Chiffchaff 1/1, Dunnock 2/1,
Sedge Warbler 3/0, Wren 2/1
Recaptures: Blackbird 1y 350days,
Blue Tit 309days, Cetti’s Warbler 301 & 224days, Chiffchaff 301days, Dunnock
309days, Wren 1y 196days; others less than 100days.
Age Range: (1st winter) Blackcap
2, Blue Tit 2, Dunnock 1, Wren 2; others adult/indeterminate
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| First Sedge Warbler capture for 2015 |
Notes: Some species in breeding condition. Warm in the sunshine
but a cold wind from the northeast, to windy towards the end of the session;
no broken poles this week though. First Sedge Warbler captures of the year
otherwise a quiet session.
Sightings 46 Species: First Reed
Warblers singing and Cuckoo calling of the year, Buzzards probably nesting in the woods to
the west, little movement over (no hirundine seen for instance) Mallard and
Gadwall display flights, woodpecker’s drumming and plenty of territorial activity;
display and song.
Blackbird
4
Blackcap
5
Black-headed
Gull 3
Blue
Tit 5
Bullfinch
2
Buzzard
2
Canada
Goose 3
Carrion
Crow 2
Cetti's
Warbler 3
Chaffinch
3
Chiffchaff
6
Collared
Dove 1
Cormorant
2
Cuckoo
1
Feral
Pigeon 1
Gadwall
2
Goldcrest
1
Great
Spotted Woodpecker 1
Great
Tit 2
Green
Woodpecker 1
Greenfinch
2
Grey
Heron 1
Greylag
Goose 2
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Jackdaw
3
Jay 2
Kestrel
1
Lesser
Black-backed Gull 4
Little
Grebe 1
Long-tailed
Tit 2
Magpie
3
Mallard
3
Moorhen
2
Pheasant
1
Pochard
1
Red
Kite 1
Reed
Bunting 4
Reed
Warbler 2
Robin
2
Sedge
Warbler 4
Song
Thrush 1
Stock
Dove 1
Water
Rail 2
Whitethroat
1
Willow
Warbler 3
Woodpigeon
10
Wren
4
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