26/07 Thatcham Marsh LNR CES 9 (Abandoned)

Location: Thatcham Marsh LNR CES 9

Session: 26-Jul-2015 05:50 to 08:30 hours; abandoned due to heavy rain
Weather: Overcast calm until 07:40 hours when it started to light rain becoming heavier as we took nets down.
Present: JL, DL, IW, RJC, JPM, JHW
Nets: Standard nets ride 360’ and 300’, addition nets 1 30’, nets up from 06:00 to 08:00hrs.
Lure: none
Capture 33: Blue Tit 1/0, Bullfinch 1/0, Cetti’s Warbler 2/1, Chiffchaff 1/0, Dunnock 1/0, Reed Warbler 9/7, Robin 1/0, Sedge Warbler 2/0, Wren 5/2
Recaptures: Cetti’s Warbler 4y 73days. Reed Warbler 5y 86days, 2y 54days, 1y 13days, 344days. Wren 287days. Rest less than 100days.
Age Range: All juveniles except Bullfinch 1, Cetti’s Warbler 1, Chiffchaff 1, Reed Warbler 7, Sedge Warbler 1, Wren 1.

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Notes: Ideal conditions to start but as forecast the rain started around 08:00hrs so we had to abandon the session. Had we been able to complete a full session we would probably have had a good capture, as bar one visit, all others total around 30 captures for a completed session. We have until the 05-Aug to do a full session; hopefully the wind and rain will abate soon!.

Sightings 34 Species: Few Common Terns over and still some Swift activity otherwise usual stuff.

Blackbird Blackcap Black-headed Gull Blue Tit Bullfinch Carrion Crow Cetti’s Warbler Chaffinch Chiffchaff Common Tern Cormorant Dunnock Goldcrest Goldfinch Great Spotted Woodpecker Green Woodpecker Greenfinch

Grey Wagtail Kingfisher Lesser Black-backed Gull Little Egret Magpie Moorhen Pochard Reed Bunting Reed Warbler Robin Sedge Warbler Stock Dove Swift Tufted Water Rail Woodpigeon Wren