16/05 Thatcham Marsh LNR CES visit 2015.02

Location: Thatcham Marsh LNR CES visit 02

Session: 16-May-2015 05:30 hrs to 10:45 hrs

Weather: overcast with some breaks in the cloud, breezy wind affecting capture particularly towards the end of the session

Present: JL, IW, DL, JHW, RJC, JPM, RGS, RDW

Nets: Standard nets 660’ along one ride (11x60’ nets) Additional nets one 40’ net. Up from 06:05 to 10:05 hrs

Lure: None

Capture 29 : Blue Tit 0/2, Cetti’s Warbler 0/1, Chiffchaff 1/0, Dunnock 0/1, Great Tit 2/0, Long-tailed Tit 3/1, Reed Warbler 4/4, Robin 1/1, Sedge Warbler 6/1, Wren 0/1

Recaptures: Cetti’s Warbler 223days, Dunnock 336d, Reed Warbler 313d, 294d, Robin 5y 91d. Others less than 100 days

Age Range: All full grown

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Notes: Visit 2015.02, 26 from standard nets and 3 from additional nets; below average; for CES 02 average is 32 range 1994 19, 2011 52

Sightings 45 Species: one probably two singing Nightingale in the scrub; hope they don’t move on as in recent years

Canada Goose Gadwall Mallard Tufted Duck Pheasant Little Grebe Cormorant Little Egret Grey Heron Buzzard Kestrel Water Rail Moorhen Black-Headed Gull Common Tern Stock Dove Woodpigeon Collared Dove Cuckoo Swift Green Woodpecker Wren Dunnock

Robin Nightingale Blackbird Song Thrush Cetti’s Warbler Sedge Warbler Reed Warbler Blackcap Garden Warbler Whitethroat Chiffchaff Willow Warbler Goldcrest Long-Tailed Tit Blue Tit Great Tit Magpie Carrion Crow Chaffinch Greenfinch Bullfinch Reed Bunting