23/08 Thatcham Marsh LNR CES Additional Visit C

Location: Thatcham Marsh LNR CES Additional Visit C

Session: 23-Aug-2015 06:30 to 11:30hrs
Weather: Overcast calm until 10:30hrs  then rain
Present: JL, IW, JHW, JPM
Nets: 660’ Standard Nets in one reed bed ride of 360+ 300’ Additional Nets 100’ in two rides of 70’ & 30’ Nets up from 07:10 to 10:40hrs
Lure: None
Capture 45 (Standard nets 40 Additional nets 5): Blackcap 2/0, Blue Tit 4/0, Bullfinch 2/0, Cetti’s Warbler 4/2, Chiffchaff 7/0, Long-tailed Tit 2/1, Reed Warbler 10/0, Robin 2/1, Sedge Warbler 3/0, Treecreeper 1/0, Wren 1/3
Recaptures: Long-tailed Tit 2y 313days others recent
Age Range: mostly juveniles, adults: Cetti’s Warbler 1, Chiffchaff 1, Long-tailed Tit 1, Reed Warbler 1, indeterminate: Cetti’s Warbler 1, Long-tailed Tit 2

Notes: A filler visit, started well and quite a good capture for this year. Weather began to threaten about 10:00hrs. The car that pulled over for Pat when she left got stuck (grounded). Tried to pull him out but tow rope snapped; left him to ring for help. Rain spots started to increase as we decided to take nets down. Ian’s nets captured the edge of the quite large tit flock that had been flying about earlier. By the time these were extracted it was light rain. Began taking nets down and about halfway through a very heavy down pour gave us all a good soaking, nice.

Sightings 39 Species: count curtailed by rain, as mention quite a large tit warbler flock flying about (not able to count as species ID not certain).

Blackbird 1 Black-headed Gull 5 Blue Tit 15 Bullfinch 4 Canada Goose 30 Carrion Crow 2 Cetti's Warbler 8 Chaffinch 2 Chiffchaff 10 Coal Tit 1 Collared Dove 1 Cormorant 2 Dunnock 2 Feral Pigeon 1 Goldcrest 2 Goldfinch 5 Great Spotted Woodpecker 2 Great Tit 2 Green Sandpiper 1 Green Woodpecker 2

House Martin 5 Jackdaw 1 Jay 1 Lesser Black-backed Gull 1 Little Grebe 1 Long-tailed Tit 15 Magpie 2 Mallard 5 Moorhen 5 Nuthatch 2 Reed Warbler 15 Robin 5 Sedge Warbler 3 Swallow 3 Swift 1 Treecreeper 2 Water Rail 1 Woodpigeon 10 Wren 6