Location: Greenham
Common Western Enclosure
Session:
Weather: thick fog early
clearing to bright sunshine, calm, windy in the last 30 minutes or so.
Present: JL, IW
Nets: Capture (New/Recapture)
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Blackcap
6/0
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Chiffchaff
24/0
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Goldcrest
3/0
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Long-tailed
Tit 1/0
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Redstart
1/0
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Age Range:
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| 1st summer male Redstart traces of supercillium and black throat feathers just visible under juvenile plumage |
Notes: The Chiffchaffs keep coming! Started in fog with
one or two Chiffchaff calling in the bushes; they responded to the audio
immediately together with a Blackcap and a Goldcrest. For the
rest of the morning a steady trickle of between three and six Chiffchaff
captured with the occasional Blackcap and Goldcrest. Mid way through as I
tried to ID a thrush that responded to Fieldfare/Redwing calls I was
distracted by a Redstart in the bottom shelf; a long winged (86mm) immature
male (yes I checked the other species unfortunately traces of a white supercillium showing). A steady capture continued for the rest of the morning,
Chiffchaff still being capture as we took the nets down.
Sightings 29 Species: The usual tit/warbler flock occasionally appear but did not cross the heath near us. I think birds were
dropping “out of the sky” all morning. We saw a Blackbird and the thrush and
some other small birds doing this. There was a lot more Blackbird activity
generally than of late; probably birds in from further north.
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Blackbird 7
Blackcap 10
Blue Tit 10
Buzzard 1
Carrion Crow 2
Chiffchaff 30
Coal Tit 1
Cormorant 1
Dartford Warbler 1
Dunnock 2
Goldcrest 5
Goldfinch 1
Great Spotted Woodpecker 2
Great Tit 2
Green Woodpecker 1
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Grey Wagtail 1
House Martin 7
Jackdaw 7
Jay 2
Kestrel 1
Linnet 3
Long-tailed Tit 5
Magpie 4
Meadow Pipit 1
Redstart 1
Robin 7
Stonechat 2
Woodpigeon 15
Wren 3
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