Location: Thatcham
Marsh LNR
Session: 06-Sep-2015 06:30 to
11:00hrs
Weather: Cold until the sun
came over the trees then calm sunny clear
Present: JL, DL,IW
Nets: 720’ in 2 rides of
360’+300’ and 60’ (B) up from 07:00 to 10:30hrs
Lure: audio; Blackcap,
Chiffchaff (song and call), Goldcrest, Firecrest, Willow Warbler, Lesser
Whitethroat, Redstart, Reed Bunting intermittently and Aquatic Warbler; well
got to ride your luck!
Capture 48: Blackcap 13/1, Blue
Tit 3/0, Bullfinch 2/0, Cetti’s Warbler 1/4, Chiffchaff 3/1, Goldcrest 1/0,
Great Tit 1/0, Kingfisher 1/0, Reed Bunting 1/0, Reed Warbler 11/1, Robin 2/1,
Sedge Warbler 1/0
Recaptures: Blackcap 140days,
Cetti’s Warbler 329days, Robin 1y 97days others less than 100days
Age Range: all 1st summer except
adult: Blackcap 1, Bullfinch 1, Robin 1, Indeterminate: Cetti’s Warbler 3
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Notes: First week after the last CES session of the season and free of its rules, very cold start;
hands not working properly, contractor’s plant in the way of ringing station, and
very muddy path where water being discharged. Good Blackcap
response to song early, Chiffchaffs coming to call and ignoring song. Pleasant
ringing when it warmed up, few birds responding to song later in the morning
prompted a 10:30hrs finish. Best bird Kingfisher.
Sightings 29 Species: Count numbers
approximate, relatively quiet as usual, possibly the last Sedge Warbler of the
season.
Blackcap 20
Black-headed Gull 4
Blue Tit 8
Bullfinch 4
Buzzard 1
Canada Goose 10
Carrion Crow 3
Cetti's Warbler 8
Chiffchaff 10
Coal Tit 1
Coot 3
Cormorant 5
Goldcrest 2
Goldfinch 2
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