Location: Greenham
Common Western Enclosure
Session: 02-Sep-2015 06:30 to
11:30hrs
Weather: overcast cool for the
time of year, sunny intervals breezy later.
Present: JL, IW, RGS
Nets: 280’ in 5 rides of
60, 60, 40, 60, 60’ up from 07:00 to 11:00hrs
Lure: audio Blackcap,
Chiffchaff, Goldcrest, Firecrest, Garden Warbler, Willow Warbler intermittently
Capture 36: Blackcap 7/0, Blue
Tit 1/0, Chiffchaff 14/2, Goldcrest 3/0, Great Tit 1/0, Linnet 1/0, Robin 4/0,
Tree Pipit 1, Whitethroat 1/0, Willow Warbler 1/0
Recaptures: Chiffchaff 26 days
old and another (32 days) from Brimpton GPs ringed by JPM)
Age Range: 1st summer except:
an adult Chiffchaff and a Willow Warbler
 |
| Tree Pipit 1st summer |
Notes: A steady trickle of leaving
migrants through the site; perhaps one of
the last Willow Warbler and Whitethroat of the year. Three Goldcrest; they usually
start coming in Sep and an influx of Robins after a few weeks when they have
been scarce on the heath. The Tree Pipit probably the best bird of the day, we
captured two here on the 19/08/2013 and have only captured about 11 since the
group formed 50+ years ago. Linnet was also an unexpected capture.
July- August Summary: The general Impression is that we are not doing so well this year but that is not what the following chart shows.
Note: this is just for the Western Enclosure and I was ringing elsewhere on the common as well in 2012 and 2013; 2014 I was away from the 17th for the rest of August
| SPECIES | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | TOT |
| Blackbird | | 3 | 4 | | 7 |
| Blackcap | 7 | 17 | 32 | 66 | 122 |
| Blue Tit | | 14 | 7 | 36 | 57 |
| Bullfinch | | | 1 | | 1 |
| Chiffchaff | 34 | 57 | 50 | 92 | 233 |
| Coal Tit | | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 |
| Dartford
Warbler | 1 | | 1 | 5 | 7 |
| Dunnock | | 2 | 3 | 6 | 11 |
| Garden
Warbler | 3 | 10 | 10 | 17 | 40 |
| Goldcrest | 3 | 4 | 9 | 4 | 20 |
| Goldfinch | 3 | 5 | 12 | 3 | 23 |
| Great Tit | 3 | 12 | 8 | 11 | 34 |
| Green
Woodpecker | 1 | | | 1 | 2 |
| Greenfinch | | | 8 | | 8 |
| Lesser
Whitethroat | | | 3 | 5 | 8 |
| Linnet | | 6 | 1 | 1 | 8 |
| Long-tailed
Tit | | | 14 | 30 | 44 |
| Magpie | | | | 1 | 1 |
| Marsh Tit | | | 1 | | 1 |
| Meadow Pipit | | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Redstart | | 1 | | 1 | 2 |
| Reed Warbler | | 1 | | | 1 |
| Robin | 1 | 4 | 10 | 3 | 18 |
| Sedge Warbler | 1 | | | | 1 |
| Song Thrush | | 1 | 1 | | 2 |
| Sparrowhawk | 1 | | | | 1 |
| Stonechat | 1 | 1 | | 6 | 8 |
| Tree Pipit | | 2 | | | 2 |
| Treecreeper | | | | 1 | 1 |
| Whitethroat | 1 | 25 | 13 | 23 | 62 |
| Willow
Warbler | 44 | 76 | 20 | 58 | 198 |
| Wren | | | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Totals: | 104 | 243 | 211 | 377 | 935 |
Sightings 29 Species: The first
signs of autumn: Siskin seen to drop into the trees towards the bunkers mid-way
through the session, the first substantial flocks of the year. A few more
dunnock than of late on the heath, and a little more finch activity generally
but no sign of Blackbird, there are usually a couple about.
|
Blackcap 1
Blue Tit 9
Buzzard 1
Carrion Crow 2
Chiffchaff 2
Dunnock 3
Goldcrest 5
Goldfinch 7
Great Spotted Woodpecker 1
Great Tit 3
Green Woodpecker 2
Greenfinch 2
Jackdaw 3
Kestrel 1
Linnet 6
|
Long-tailed Tit 5
Magpie 3
Meadow Pipit 1
Pied Wagtail 2
Robin 3
Siskin 26
Starling 50
Stock Dove 1
Stonechat 4
Swallow 5
Tree Pipit 1
Whitethroat 3
Woodpigeon
Wren 3
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