14/10 Greenham Common Western Enclosure

Location: Greenham Common Western Enclosure

Session: 14-Oct-2015 07:30 to 10:45hrs
Weather: Sunny, cool clouding over and breezy later
Present: JL, DL
Nets: 160’ in three rides of 60’ 60’ 40’ up from 08:00hrs to 10:30hrs
Lure (audio): Blackcap, Chiffchaff, Goldcrest, Firecrest, Yellow-browed/Crest mix, Redwing, Meadow Pipit intermittently

Capture (New/Recapture) 9:

Chiffchaff 3/0	Goldcrest 2/1
Great Tit 1/0	Robin 1/0
Wren 1/0

Recaptures: 1 Goldcrest 15d
Age Range: All 1st winter except an adult Great Tit

Notes: A quiet morning, looks like the autumn passage out of the country is drawing to a close. Two Chiffchaff as I put the nets up followed by three Goldcrest then nothing for an hour. For the rest of the morning just single birds with long period between.

Sightings 23 Species: No much activity on the heath. A few Meadow Pipit, one or two Skylark, Pied Wagtail and Siskin flying about. A flock of Redwing flew west early morning and two Stonechat appeared late morning.

Blackbird 4 Blue Tit 2 Buzzard 1 Carrion Crow 5 Chiffchaff 5 Cormorant 2 Goldcrest 3 Goldfinch 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker 2 Great Tit 3 Jackdaw 12 Long-tailed Tit 5

Magpie 2 Meadow Pipit 7 Pied Wagtail 3 Redwing 22 Robin 2 Siskin 4 Skylark 4 Starling 3 Stonechat 2 Woodpigeon 8 Wren 2