Location: Thatcham Marsh
LNR CES 2015.08
Session: 18-Jul-2015 05:30 to 10:30hrs
Weather: Bright, sunny, little
cloud , calm early, breezy late in session
Present: JL, IW, DL, JPM, RGS
Nets: Standard Nets 660’
along one reed bed ride. Additional Nets in scrub 60’ & 40’
Lure: None
Capture 58 (41 in Standard
Nets): Blackcap 1/0, Blue
Tit 1/0, Bullfinch 5/0, Cetti’s Warbler 2/1, Chiffchaff 2/0, Dunnock 1/0, Great
Tit 1/0, Marsh Tit 1/0, Reed Bunting 3/0, Reed Warbler 21/7, Robin 3/0, Sedge
Warbler 2/0, Song Thrush 0/1, Whitethroat 1/0, Wren 5/0
Recaptures: Cetti’s Warbler 4y
65days, Reed Warbler 5y 78d, 1y 335d, 328d; others less than 100 days
Age Range: All juveniles except
Bullfinch 2, Cetti’s Warbler 1, Reed Bunting 1, Reed Warbler 8, Song Thrush 1
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| Juvenile Marsh Tit |
Notes: 41 is just below the
average of 44 for visit 8; range 2012 24 1997 89. Weather was generally ideal
if a little bright; it became breezy for the last 30+ minutes. Scrub did well
including a Marsh Tit now scarce around the marsh; last captured here 09-Sep-2012
. Just a few straggler Sedge Warbler, still quite a few mostly juvenile Reed
Warblers about but not in the numbers expected for this time of year..
Sightings
Butterflies: Gatekeeper,
Red Admiral, Comma, Large White
Moths: Scarlet Tiger
Dragonflies:
Southern Hawker, Brown Hawker, Banded Demoiselle
Birds: 39 Species: Skylark once
common here now seen occasionally over flying, Marsh Tit are usually found in the mature
woodland on the margins of the reed bed. Most other species regular for the
time of year, Blue Tit and Great Tit numbers down and still no over-flying hirundine.
Canada Goose
Cormorant
Buzzard
Moorhen
Black-headed Gull
Swift
Great Spotted Woodpecker
Magpie
Jackdaw
Blue Tit
Marsh Tit
Cetti's Warbler
Blackcap
Reed Warbler
Wren
Blackbird
Robin
Grey Wagtail
Bullfinch
Reed Bunting
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Mallard
Red Kite
Water Rail
Common Tern
Woodpigeon
Green Woodpecker
Kestrel
Jay
Carrion Crow
Great Tit
Skylark
Chiffchaff
Whitethroat
Treecreeper
Starling
Song Thrush
Dunnock
Chaffinch
Goldfinch
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