11/10 Thatcham Marsh LNR

Location: Thatcham Marsh LNR

Session: 11-Oct-2015 07:00 to 11:30hrs

Weather: bright, sunny, calm, cool

Present: JL, IW, JHW

Nets: 760’ in two rides of 360’+300’ reed bed ride and 60’ scrub ride up from 07:45 to 10:30hrs
Lure (audio): Blackcap, Chiffchaff, Goldcrest, Firecrest, Reed Bunting, Redwing, Bearded Tit, Yellow-browed Warbler; intermittently.
Capture (New/Recapture) 34:

Blackcap 1/0	Blue Tit 3/1
Cetti’s Warbler 2/1	Chiffchaff 3/0
Dunnock 1/0	Goldcrest 5/0
Great Tit 3/0	Reed Bunting 6/0
Robin 2/1	Wren 1/4

Recaptures: 7

Blue Tit 2y 118d

Cetti’s Warbler 98d

Robin 1y 69d

Wren 1y 77d, 1y 34d, 73d, 64d

Age Range: all 1st winter except

Adult: Blue Tit 1, Reed Bunting 1, Robin 1, Wren 2

Indeterminate: Cetti’s Warbler 2

Notes: Two Cetti’s Warbler started the session, both new. Next a couple of Great Tits from the scrub net. The next round was of 16 birds including a blackcap, chiffchaff, goldcrest, and reed bunting. Another (retrap) Cetti’s Warbler from the scrub followed and then another three nets rounds of between one and five birds before we took the nets down early so that my ride could be strimmed (thanks Jon) after last week’s mower breakdown and we could get home to see the Russian GP

Sightings 39 Species: Tawny Owl calling when we arrived. A small movement of Redwing, the first of the winter for us, after one or two fleeting probable’s in the week. Cetti’s Warbler still quite active otherwise usual autumn fair.

Blackbird 5 Blackcap 3 Black-headed Gull 12 Blue Tit 8 Bullfinch 2 Canada Goose 30 Carrion Crow 4 Cetti's Warbler 8 Chaffinch 4 Chiffchaff 5 Coot 2 Dunnock 3 Gadwall 8 Goldcrest 5 Goldfinch 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker 1 Great Tit 5 Green Woodpecker 2 Grey Wagtail 5 Jackdaw 8

Jay 2 Lesser Redpoll 4 Long-tailed Tit 7 Magpie 3 Mallard 2 Meadow Pipit 1 Moorhen 2 Pheasant 1 Redwing 9 Reed Bunting 8 Robin 6 Shoveler 1 Siskin 9 Skylark 2 Tawny Owl 1 Treecreeper 1 Water Rail 3 Woodpigeon 10 Wren 8