17/09 Greenham Common Western Enclosure

Location: Greenham Common Western Enclosure

Session: 17-Sep-2015 07:00 to 11:30hrs
Weather: cloudy and breezy at start clearing and sometimes clam later, becoming overcast and breezy in the last half hour or so
Present: JL, IW, RGS
Nets: 160’ in three rides 60, 60, 40’ up from 07:15 to 11:00hrs
Lure: audio, Blackcap, Chiffchaff, Goldcrest, Firecrest, Redpoll, Siskin, Willow Warbler and Ring Ouzel (there was one on the heath south of the control tower so worth ago)  
Capture 28: Blackcap 6/1 (control), Blue Tit 3/0, Chiffchaff 12/0, Coal Tit 1/0, Goldcrest 2/2, Robin 1/0
Recaptures: both Goldcrests recent and a Blackcap with ring Z634184 from elsewhere (control)
Age Range: All 1st summer except for an adult Robin
Notes: Went out this morning expecting it to be windy but it calmed to an acceptable level and there were a few migrants on the move. A text from AEDH that there was a Ring Ouzel along the heath got hopes up a bit. Captured a few Chiffchaff but still awaiting the big capture of Blackcaps that we usually get this time of year; otherwise a typical capture for the time of year. There is always tomorrow.

Sightings 28 Species: For the first time for a while no Stonechat or Dartford Warbler seen or heard. A steady flow of Swallow heading low ESE for most of the morning at about 20 an hour began about 08:00 and was still going when I left. The list is reduced because I forgot my binoculars! The household authority rescued me; rather appropriate she thought as she was going to a lecture on recognising alzheimer’s disease!

Did have a look along the heath on the way out but could only find a Wheatear.

Blackbird 2 Blackcap 10 Black-headed Gull 12 Blue Tit 5 Buzzard 2 Carrion Crow 4 Chaffinch 1 Chiffchaff 15 Coal Tit 1 Dunnock 2 Feral Pigeon 1 Goldcrest 4 Goldfinch 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker 1

Great Tit 2 Green Woodpecker 2 Jackdaw 17 Jay 2 Lesser Black-backed Gull 9 Magpie 4 Meadow Pipit 1 Robin 3 Siskin 2 Swallow 40 Willow Warbler 1 Woodlark 5 Woodpigeon 10 Wren 2