Location: Thatcham
Marsh LNR CES visit 2015.04
Session: 06-Jun-2015 05:30 to
11:00 hrs
Weather: bright sunny light
breeze at start , more cloud and very strong winds towards the end of the
session affecting the capture for the second half.
Present: JL, IW, DL, JHW, JPM,
RGS
Nets: Standard nets 660’ along one reed bed ride. Additional
Nets 230’ in scrub, Nets up from 06:00 to 10:00hrs
Lure: none
Capture 35 : Blackcap 1/0, Blue
Tit 1/0, Cetti’s Warbler 0/2, Dunnock 0/1, Reed Bunting 1/0, Reed Warbler
12/12, Robin 2/1,Sedge Warbler 0/2
Recaptures: Cetti’s Warbler
328days, Dunnock 3y 66days, Reed Warbler 2y 313days, 2y 4days, 357days,
334days, 328days, 315days, 307days
Age Range (juveniles) : Blackcap 1, Blue Tit
1, Reed Bunting 1, Reed Warbler 4; normally we don’t capture juvenile Reed
Warbler until visit 6 or 7, visit 5 is early, we have only ever in the 23
years of the CES captured 1 on visit 4 (2011)
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| Juvenile Reed Warbler captured today |
Notes: Visit 2015.04: 32
from the standard nets and 2 from additional nets
32 is below the average of 37; range 2005 & 2009 21 and 1993 59
The session started off quite well, the light breeze not really affecting the capture however as the session progressed the wind increased; the last 40 minutes being quite impossible as the wind became very strong. There was relatively little avian activity during the session particularly in the scrub probably subdued by the conditions. On the reed bed the impression is of just a couple of pairs of Sedge Warbler and Reed Bunting present in the immediate vicinity and fewer returning Reed Warblers so far this year and time is running out. It was somewhat of a surprise when a recently fledging Reed Warbler family turned up in the nets.
32 is below the average of 37; range 2005 & 2009 21 and 1993 59
The session started off quite well, the light breeze not really affecting the capture however as the session progressed the wind increased; the last 40 minutes being quite impossible as the wind became very strong. There was relatively little avian activity during the session particularly in the scrub probably subdued by the conditions. On the reed bed the impression is of just a couple of pairs of Sedge Warbler and Reed Bunting present in the immediate vicinity and fewer returning Reed Warblers so far this year and time is running out. It was somewhat of a surprise when a recently fledging Reed Warbler family turned up in the nets.
Sightings 45 Species: No sign of
Nightingale, probably either on eggs or has moved on.
Canada Goose
Tufted Duck
Little Grebe
Buzzard
Moorhen
Black-headed Gull
Stock Dove
Cuckoo
Green Woodpecker
Kestrel
Jay
Carrion Crow
Blue Tit
Cetti's Warbler
Chiffchaff
Blackcap
Whitethroat
Reed Warbler
Starling
Song Thrush
Dunnock
Bullfinch
Reed Bunting
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Mallard
Cormorant
Red Kite
Water Rail
Common Tern
Feral Pigeon
Woodpigeon
Swift
Great Spotted Woodpecker
Magpie
Jackdaw
Goldcrest
Great Tit
Long-tailed Tit
Willow Warbler
Garden Warbler
Sedge Warbler
Wren
Blackbird
Robin
Chaffinch
Greenfinch
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