Location: Greenham
Common Western Enclosure
Session: 30-Sep-2015 07:15 to
10:45hrs
Weather: Bright sunny fairly
calm early with occasional gusts, later wind speed increased such that session
abandoned at 10:30hrs
Present: JL, IW, RGS, RJC
Nets: 160’ in three net
rides of 60’ 60’, 40’ up from 07:30 to 10:30hrs
Lure (audio): Blackcap,
Chiffchaff, Goldcrest, Firecrest, Meadow Pipit, Dartford Warbler
Capture (New/Recapture) 19:
Blackcap
4/0
|
Chiffchaff
12/0
|
Dartford
Warbler 1/0
|
Goldcrest
1/0
|
Wren
1/0
|
|
Recaptures: None
Age Range: All 1st summer
 |
1st summer male Dartford Warbler
(plumage being blown by the wind) |
Notes: Conditions when I
arrived were better than expected with very little wind interspersed with an
occasional gust; eventually session abandoned as the wind got too much.
Bird-wise there was much less activity than yesterday. While the putting up
the nets a Chiffchaff and Wren called in the compound; usually there are no
birds. The first net round produced a two Chiffchaff and a Blackcap and a
trickle of these continued for much of the morning. Just one Goldcrest today
and eventually the Wren also captured. Around 10:00hrs a Dartford Warbler that
had been seen earlier sang briefly in the gorse near the nets and a short
burst of song from the audio brought and immediate response and capture
despite the strong wind. The Dartford song was turned off immediately as
required by my license for this species as I presumed it to be territorial. Following
processing the last three birds we abandoned the session half an hour early to
avoid the nets being stretched by the wind.
Sightings 32 Species: A pheasant
calling from the woods towards the car park eventually flew out on to the
heath; probably a refugee from a nearby shoot. A mixed tit/warbler flock flew east
along the margin of the wood but did not cross the heaths Later IW spotted a
male Redstart flitting around a birch tree before disappearing into the wood. Red Kite and Buzzard soared on the wind over the heath and a few
hirundine went east. Several birds sunned themselves in the gorse; a Great
Spotted Woodpecker did the same high in conifer top above the wood.
Blackbird
1
Blackcap
8
Blue
Tit 5
Buzzard
2
Carrion
Crow 3
Chiffchaff
15
Coal
Tit 1
Dartford
Warbler 1
Dunnock
1
Goldcrest
1
Goldfinch
4
Great
Spotted Woodpecker 2
Great
Tit 1
Green
Woodpecker 1
House
Martin 3
Jackdaw
5
Jay 1
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Lesser
Black-backed Gull 2
Linnet
4
Long-tailed
Tit 5
Magpie
4
Meadow
Pipit 6
Pheasant
1
Red
Kite 1
Redstart
1
Robin
2
Siskin
3
Skylark
2
Swallow
4
Treecreeper
1
Woodlark
3
Woodpigeon
10
Wren
2
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