20/09 Thatcham Marsh LNR

Location: Thatcham Marsh LNR

Session: 20-Sep-2015 07:00 to 11:30hrs
Weather: Misty overcast early, sunny periods later, windy for the last 20 minutes
Present: JL, IW, DL, JHW
Nets: 760’ of nets in 3 rides of 360’+300’, 60’, 40’ up from 07:30 to 10:45hrs
Lure (audio): Blackcap, Chiffchaff (song + calls), Goldcrest, Firecrest, Willow Warbler, Reed Bunting (calls)
Capture 56: 

Blackcap 13/0	Blue Tit 6/1
Chiffchaff 16/1 (control)	Dunnock 2/0
Great Tit 0/1	Cetti’s Warbler 0/2
Goldcrest 2/0	Reed Bunting 3/0
Reed Warbler 2/3	Robin 0/1
Sedge Warbler 2/0	Wren 0/2

Recaptures:

Cetti’s Warbler 3y 13days, 161days

Great Tit 127days

Others recent

Age Range: All 1st summer except:
Adults:

Blue Tit 1	Chiffchaff 1
Great Tit 1	Reed Bunting 1

Indeterminate: Cetti’s Warbler 1

Notes: Pleasant mornings ringing. Some warblers had high fat scores. Around 08:30hrs an influx of Blackcap and at about 10:30 an influx of Chiffchaff; one of the latter HJL765 not one of ours so ringed away from Newbury. Down to the last few Reed and Sedge Warbler, it will be interesting to see how many we capture next week.  
Manage to access the reed bed ride despite the efforts of the contractor to block our way with pump plant.
I plucked up courage and retrieved the plank would you believe!

Sightings 41 Species: Didn’t do a count. Green Sandpiper high over calling several times; probably the same bird. Cetti’s Warbler relatively quiet. Chiffchaff and Blackcap moving through the site. Egyptian Geese and Kingfisher went through early morning. Swallow trickling through for most of the session, as they have since at least Tuesday. Mid-way through a good numbers of House Martin feeding high up drifted east. A Peregrine soared over the last few and then flew north east. Water Rail quite noisy during the session!

Blackbird Black-headed Gull Blue Tit Bullfinch Buzzard 1 Canada Goose Carrion Crow Cetti's Warbler Chaffinch Chiffchaff Cormorant Dunnock Egyptian Goose Great Spotted Woodpecker Great Tit Green Sandpiper 1 Grey Heron Grey Wagtail House Martin Jackdaw Jay

Kestrel 1 Kingfisher Lesser Spotted Woodpecker 1 Little Grebe Long-tailed Tit Magpie Moorhen Nuthatch Peregrine 2 Pied Wagtail Reed Bunting Reed Warbler Robin Sedge Warbler Siskin Starling Swallow Water Rail Woodpigeon Wren