18/08 Greenham Common Western Enclosure

Location: Greenham Common Western Enclosure

Session: 18-Aug-2015 06:15 to 11:25hrs
Weather: mostly overcast and cool for the time of year, breezy late in session.
Present: JL,IW,RJC,RGS
Nets: 280’ 5 rides of 60’, 60’, 40’, 60’, 60’; up from 06:45 to 11:00hrs
Lure: Audio Blackcap, Chiffchaff, Goldcrest, Firecrest, Garden Warbler, Meadow Pipit, Redstart, Dartford Warbler intermittently
Capture 25: Blackcap 3/0, Blue it 3/1, Chiffchaff 6/0, Lesser Whitethroat 3/0, Meadow Pipit 1/0, Whitethroat 3/0, Willow Warbler 3/1, Wren 1/0
Recaptures: Blue Tit 18days, Willow Warbler 2y 17days
Age Range: All juveniles except (adults) Lesser Whitethroat 1, Whitethroat 1, Willow Warbler 4, Wren 1



Meadow Pipit Juvenile

Notes: Quite cold early but calm. Three Lesser Whitethroat is a red letter day for this site; 5 in total so far this year when we usually hope for one! If it had not become breezy might have more Meadow Pipits, at least three bounce out of billowing nets and one freed itself before we got to it.

Sightings 29 Species: Bit of a Swallow passage over today, mostly into the wind. Small flock of Meadow Pipits is recent. No Robin, Dunnock, Chaffinch seen, finches generally scarce, winter arrival of these should be obvious when it happens.

Blackbird 1 Blackcap 5 Blue Tit 5 Bullfinch 1 Buzzard 1 Carrion Crow 3 Chiffchaff 10 Cormorant 2 Dartford Warbler 2 Goldfinch 10 Great Spotted Woodpecker 1 Great Tit 2 Green Woodpecker 3 Jackdaw 6 Jay 1

Lesser Black-backed Gull 6 Lesser Whitethroat 4 Linnet 5 Magpie 2 Meadow Pipit 12 Pied Wagtail  2 Starling 8 Stock Dove 2 Stonechat 2 Swallow 23 Whitethroat 5 Willow Warbler 4 Woodpigeon 10 Wren 1