26/11 Snelsmore Common

Location: Snelsmore Common
Session: 26-Nov-2015 07:45 to 11:15hrs
Weather: overcast, cool, calm brightening up towards end of session
Present: JL, IW, RGS, DL
Nets: 36; an 18’ net each side of feeders up from 08:00 to 11:00hrs
Lure ( feeders ): Fat Balls, Black Sunflower Hearts, Peanuts
Capture (New/Recapture) 88:

Blue Tit 20/24	Chaffinch 1/0
Coal Tit 6/21	Great Spotted Woodpecker 3/0
Great Tit 8/4	Nuthatch 1/0

Recaptures: 49

Blue Tit: Full Grown 3y 255d, 1y 339d, 1y 300d, 357d, 342d, 319d, 305d-2 Pulli 4y 194d Mount Hill box C05, 2y 169d box CP12, 190d boxes 1-CP02 2 box CP24, 2-box CP31 Coal Tit  4y 3d, 1y 20d, 289d-2, 281d Great Tit pulli 197d box WH03-2, 187d WH22 All other recaptures 18d

Age Range: All 1st winter except

Adults Blue Tit 14, Coal Tit 6, Great Tit 2

Notes: A good session with a high number of recaptures. 4 year old Coal Tits are scarce, a 4 year old Blue Tit is not unknown. Some good pulli recaptures including more than 1 for the same box. I can’t remember capturing such a  high number of adult Blue Tit in one session. It is interesting that the Great Tit pulli came from the Winterbourne Holt boxes.

Sightings 21 Species: Busy morning probably missed quite a few

Blackbird 3 Blue Tit 50+ Brambling 1 Bullfinch 2 Buzzard 1 Carrion Crow 3 Chaffinch 21 Coal Tit 30+ Dunnock 2 Feral Pigeon 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker 4

Great Tit 15+ Jackdaw 12 Jay 1 Marsh Tit 2 Nuthatch 4 Raven 1 Robin 4 Rook 17 Woodpigeon 11 Wren 2