20/05 Snelsmore Common Car Park Nest Boxes

Location: Snelsmore Common Car Park Nest Boxes

Session: 20-May-2015 06:15 to 10:15

Weather: bright, sunny, cold wind

Present: JL

Notes: 28 Occupied un-ringed boxes checked

Blue Tit: 14 boxes checked, 7 broods of 6, 9, 10, 10, 9, 6, 9 ringed, 1 had warm eggs, others had chicks to small to ring
Great Tit: 8 boxes checked, 4 had broods of 4, 7, 4, 6 ringed, 2 had eggs, others had chicks to young to ring
Nuthatch: 4 boxes checked, 3 broods of 6, 8, 7 ringed, the other nest has adults sitting, two today, but no eggs or chicks
Broods smaller this year for Blue Tit and Great Tit, usually they are 10+ and 7+ respectively

Sightings 31 Species: two Raven flying south probably best sighting

Mallard Buzzard Green Woodpecker Jay Rook Raven 2 Blue Tit Coal Tit Long-tailed Tit Blackcap Nuthatch Wren Song Thrush Robin Tree Pipit Linnet

Red Kite Woodpigeon Great Spotted Woodpecker Jackdaw Carrion Crow Goldcrest Great Tit Marsh Tit Chiffchaff Garden Warbler Treecreeper Blackbird Mistle Thrush Dunnock Chaffinch