16/08 Thatcham Marsh LNR CES 2015.11

Location: Thatcham Marsh LNR CES 2015.11

Session: 16-Aug-2015 05:30 to 10:40hrs
Weather: mostly over cast with sunny periods cold for Aug, calm
Present: JL, IW, JHW, JPM, RGS
Nets: 360’ Standard Nets in one reed bed ride of 360’, 300’ Additional Nets 70’ in two rides of 40’ & 30’ Nets up from 06:05 to 10:10hrs
Lure: None
Capture 42 (34 in Standard Nets): Blackcap 2/0, Blue Tit 1/1, Bullfinch 2/0, Cetti’s Warbler2/1, Chiffchaff 3/0, Dunnock 1/0, Great Tit 1/0, Long-tailed Tit 3/0, Reed Warbler 9/4, Sedge Warbler 4/1, Wren 4.3
Recaptures: Blue Tit 3y 304days, Reed Warbler 2y 12days; others less than 100days
Age Range: All juveniles except: Blue Tit 1, Chiffchaff 1, Reed Warbler 3, Wren 1
Notes: 34 in standard nets is below the 37 average for visit 11; range 2005 11 to 1995 71. Good ringing weather, very little acrocephalus activity on reed bed so the numbers captured unexpected especially Sedge Warblers.

Sightings 40 Species: Tawny Owl calling shows the dawn getting later; just getting light when we arrived but it was overcast.

Blackbird 1 Blackcap 3 Black-headed Gull 10 Blue Tit 5 Bullfinch 2 Buzzard 1 Canada Goose 15 Carrion Crow 2 Cetti's Warbler 6 Chaffinch 1 Chiffchaff 5 Collared Dove 1 Cormorant 1 Dunnock 2 Goldcrest 2 Goldfinch 6 Great Spotted Woodpecker 2 Great Tit 2 Green Sandpiper 1 Green Woodpecker 1

Jackdaw 5 Jay 5 Kingfisher 1 Lesser Black-backed Gull 1 Long-tailed Tit 6 Magpie 3 Mallard 4 Moorhen 2 Nuthatch 1 Reed Bunting 1 Reed Warbler 15 Robin 3 Sedge Warbler 7 Sparrowhawk 1 Tawny Owl 1 Treecreeper 2 Water Rail 3 Willow Warbler 1 Woodpigeon 5 Wren 10