Session: 25-Oct-2015 07:30 to
10:45hrs
Weather: bright, sunny, calm
cold, minor ground frost.
Present: JL, IW, DL
Nets: 720’ in 2 rides of
360’+300’ and 60’ up from 08:00 to 10:00hrs
Lure (audio): Blackcap,
Chiffchaff, Goldcrest, Firecrest, Reed Bunting, Redwing, Siskin, Redpoll;
intermittently
Capture (New/Recapture)
Blue
Tit 3/0
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Cetti’s
Warbler 0/3
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Chaffinch
1/0
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Chiffchaff
1/0
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Dunnock
1/0
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Goldcrest
13/2
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Long-tailed
Tit 1/1
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Reed
Bunting 5/0
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Robin
0/2
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Wren
1/4
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Cetti’s
Warbler 1y 104d, 1y 70d, 196d
Goldcrest
49d, 21d
Long-tailed
Tit 154d
Robin
1y 20d, 99d
Wren
2y 61d, 87d, 78d, 28d
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Adults
Blue Tit 1, Goldcrest 1, Reed Bunting 1, Robin 1, Wren 2
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Notes: The first GMT session
of the autumn usually means an early start. We found that the bridge jetties
vandalised, so we gathered up the bits fishing them out of the stream,
reinstated the rope post and re-fixed the plank that had been ripped off and
thrown in the sluice. This took about half an hour and delayed erecting nets.
It was quiet on the reed bed with one re-captured Wren from the reed bed and a
Chaffinch from the scrub; a scarce species here these days. Next round
produced a Robin and a Chiffchaff from the scrub and a Cetti’s Warbler, Robin
and a Wren from the reed bed. A single Goldcrest from the scrub was all that
the next round produced. The reed bed produced another Wren and Cetti’s
Warbler and two new Goldcrest about 30 minutes later. It began to pick up after this with a Wren, Long-tailed Tit, Dunnock,
Cetti’s Warbler, three Goldcrest and three Reed Bunting from the reed bed. We
decided to take the nets down at 10:00 and finished with another Goldcrest and
two Reed Buntings from the reed bed. The scrub however produced seven Goldcrests
and three Blue Tits, quite an influx since it had been quiet for much of the
morning.
Sightings 32 Species: Very little
visual activity or movement apart from a Green Sandpiper over when erecting
the nets and a tit flock that move through west and back mid- morning; no much sign of the number of
Goldcrest that were present!
Blackbird 2
Black-headed Gull 2
Blue Tit 6
Bullfinch 2
Buzzard 1
Canada Goose 35
Carrion Crow 3
Cetti's Warbler 8
Chaffinch 3
Cormorant 3
Dunnock 3
Goldcrest 18
Goldfinch 2
Great Tit 2
Green Sandpiper 1
Green Woodpecker 1
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Grey Heron 1
Jackdaw 38
Lesser Redpoll 3
Long-tailed Tit 10
Magpie 2
Mallard 5
Moorhen 2
Pheasant 1
Red Kite 2
Redwing 3
Reed Bunting 6
Siskin 2
Skylark 1
Water Rail 1
Woodpigeon 10
Wren 8
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