Location: Thatcham Marsh LNR CES visit 2015.05
Session: 14-Jun-2015 05:30 to
10:30hrs
Weather: Dull, overcast, cold
and occasionally breezy.
Present: JL, DL, IW, JPM, RJC
Nets: Standard nets 660’ along one reed bed ride. No Additional
Nets. Nets up from 05:55 to 10:05hrs
Lure: None
Capture 33 : Blackbird 1/2, Blue Tit
1/2, Cetti’s Warbler 0/1, Dunnock 1/0, Reed Warbler 5/13, Robin 4/0, Sedge
Warbler 0/2, Song Thrush 0/1
Recaptures: Blackbird 259days;
Blue Tit 3y 150d, 252d; Cetti’s Warbler 302d;
Age Range: (Juveniles) Blackbird
1, Blue Tit 1, Reed Warbler 1, Robin 4
Notes: Visit 2015.05 33 from
the standard nets is below the average of 42, range 2013-15, 1993-78.
The session began in a light drizzle, more like a misting than drizzle, cloud was very low and it was dark, dank and repressive with occasional breezy gusts; a quite unpleasant environment. The reed bed remains relatively quiet so it looks as if we have all the returning migrants we are going to get. Just three Blue Tits, one a juvenile, just about sum it up; usually it would be a good flock near double figures. Even less Sedge Warbler activity than visit 04; Cuckoos still active. The weather brightened up a little as we took the nets down.
The session began in a light drizzle, more like a misting than drizzle, cloud was very low and it was dark, dank and repressive with occasional breezy gusts; a quite unpleasant environment. The reed bed remains relatively quiet so it looks as if we have all the returning migrants we are going to get. Just three Blue Tits, one a juvenile, just about sum it up; usually it would be a good flock near double figures. Even less Sedge Warbler activity than visit 04; Cuckoos still active. The weather brightened up a little as we took the nets down.
Sightings 39 Species: Nothing unexpected; not many fledglings about yet
Blackbird
Blackcap
Black-headed Gull
Blue Tit
Carrion Crow
Cetti's Warbler
Chaffinch
Chiffchaff
Common Tern
Coot
Dunnock
Egyptian Goose
Gadwall
Garden Warbler
Goldcrest
Green Woodpecker
Jackdaw
Kestrel
Long-tailed Tit
Magpie
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Mallard
Moorhen
Pheasant
Pochard
Red Kite
Reed Bunting
Reed Warbler
Robin
Sedge Warbler
Shoveler
Song Thrush
Starling
Swallow
Swift
Treecreeper
Tufted Duck
Whitethroat
Willow Warbler
Wren
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