23/07 Greenham Common Western Enclosure

Location: Greenham Common Western Enclosure

Session: 23-Jul-2015 05:30 to 11:30hrs
Weather: sunny early then overcast and calm, clouding up later with a breeze.
Present: JL, RGS, IW
Nets: five rides 60, 60, 40, 60, 60 up from 06:15 to 11:00hrs
Lure: Audio; Blackcap, Chiffchaff, Goldcrest, Firecrest, Wood Warbler, Dartford Warbler, Redstart at times over the period
Capture 26: Blackcap 3/0, Chiffchaff 7/0, Dartford Warbler 1/0, Dunnock 2/0, Garden Warbler 1/0, Goldfinch 2/0, Robin 2/0, Stonechat 1/0, Whitethroat 3/0, Willow Warbler 4/0
Recaptures: None
Age Range: All juveniles except Blackcap 1, Chiffchaff 1, Dunnock 1, Goldfinch 2, Willow Warbler 1

Whitethroat juvenile

 

Notes: Pleasant morning, another stonechat bounced out of net others jinked over, not much activity for the time of year. Migrants show little sign of putting on fat ready for migration.

Sightings 35 Species: Tufted Duck over is unusual otherwise fairly quiet morning, young Buzzard accompanied by an adult flew south, just two swallows through heading Southish and a party of House Martin feeding over trees.

Tufted Duck 1 Red Kite 1 Lesser Black-backed Gull 3 Woodpigeon 25 Magpie 6 Jackdaw 15 Blue Tit 5 Swallow 2 Long-tailed Tit 5 Willow Warbler 4 Garden Warbler 1 Dartford Warbler 2 Nuthatch 2 Starling 1 Robin 5 Dunnock 3 Greenfinch 2 Goldfinch 5

Pheasant 1 Grey Heron 1 Buzzard 2 Stock Dove 2 Green Woodpecker 3 Jay 2 Carrion Crow 2 Coal Tit 2 House Martin 5 Chiffchaff 7 Blackcap 3 Whitethroat 5 Wren 2 Blackbird 3 Stonechat 4 Meadow Pipit 3 Linnet 25