20/11 Bagnor Feeder

Location: Bagnor Feeder

Session: 20-Oct-2015 07:45 to 11:30hrs

Weather: Overcast, calm getting colder as the morning progressed

Present: JL, IW

Nets: 36’ one 18’ net each side of feeders. Up from 08:00 to 11:00hrs

Lure (feeders): Peanuts, Black Sunflower, Niger

Capture (New/Recapture) 45:

Blue Tit 10/8	Coal Tit 1/0
Goldfinch 6/1	Great Spotted Woodpecker 0/1
Great Tit 5/5	Greenfinch 6/0
Marsh Tit 0/1	Siskin 1/0

Recaptures: 16

Blue Tit 2y 169d from nest box D09, 1y 179d from Snelsmore Common WH15, 1y 179d from C05, 183d from D06 Marsh Tit 302d All others 8 days

Age Range: all 1st winter except:

Adults Blue Tit 8, Goldfinch 2, Great Tit 3, Greenfinch 1, Marsh Tit 1

Notes: It was very slow early; few birds about generally. Later birds began to move in from the surrounding area with a good variety; best birds the Marsh Tit and the Siskin and a good capture for this feeder of Greenfinch.

Sightings 34 Species: Redwing flocks moving about, Fieldfare less so. A large flock of Siskin feeding in Alders and coming to drink need the feeder. Steady flow of gulls mostly west in ones and two during the morning.

Blackbird 8 Blue Tit 25 Canada Goose 1 Carrion Crow 5 Chaffinch 10 Coal Tit 1 Dunnock 1 Fieldfare 13 Goldcrest 3 Great Spotted Woodpecker 2 Great Tit 15 Greenfinch 10 Grey Wagtail 1 Jackdaw 19 Lesser Redpoll 5 Goldfinch 15 Jay 2 Lesser Black-backed Gull 26

Little Egret 1 Mallard 4 Marsh Tit 1 Mistle Thrush 1 Moorhen 1 Nuthatch 2 Pheasant 4 Red Kite 2 Red-legged Partridge 2 Redwing 64 Robin 4 Rook 2 Siskin 50 Woodcock 1 Woodpigeon 105 Wren 2