09/07 Greenham Common Western Enclosure

Location: Greenham Common Western Enclosure

Session: 09-Jul-2015 06:15 to 10:45
Weather: bright sunny warm breezy
Present: JL, IW, RGS
Nets: two x  60’ and a 40’ net up from 06:30 to 10:30hrs
Lure: Audio for the last 30+ minutes of session.
Capture 16: Blackcap 3/0, Chiffchaff 0/1, Coal Tit 1/0, Dartford Warbler 1/0, Dunnock 1/0, Garden Warbler 1/0, Goldcrest 1/0, Goldfinch 1/0, Great Tit 0/1, Stonechat 2/0, Whitethroat 1/0, Willow Warbler 2/0
Recaptures: Chiffchaff 1y 308days, Great Tit 1y 8days
Age Range: All juveniles except Blackcap 1, Chiffchaff 1, Goldfinch 1, Willow Warbler 2



Juvenile Dartford

Juvenile Stonechat

Notes: The first session for me after a break in Greece, started later than intended. Several juvenile Dartford Warblers and Stonechats (third one dropped out of net as I tried to extract it). Bulk of capture before 07:30 hence tried audio for the last half hour of session, this pulled in a few birds mostly juveniles.

Sightings 36 Species: Still a bit too quiet bird-wise for my liking, few hirundine no Skylarks and just the odd Meadow Pipit at the western end. Lot of Dartford Warbler and Stonechat activity when I arrived mostly juveniles also family party of Woodlark.

Cormorant Grey Heron Buzzard Stock Dove Green Woodpecker Magpie Jackdaw Blue Tit Coal Tit Swallow Chiffchaff Blackcap Dartford Warbler 3 Blackbird Robin Dunnock Meadow Pipit Linnet

Little Egret 2 Red Kite Black-headed Gull Woodpigeon Kestrel Jay Carrion Crow Great Tit Woodlark 4 Long-tailed Tit Willow Warbler Whitethroat Wren Song Thrush Stonechat 7 Pied Wagtail (yarrellii) Greenfinch Goldfinch