04/02 Bagnor Feeder

Location: Bagnor Feeder

Session: 04-Feb-2016 08:00 to 11:20hrs

Headlines: Low activity at the feeder today, the mild weather probably making birds more interested in territory than food. At this time of year many captures are re-traps and there were few of these today. Nice to be out in some comfortable weather conditions.

Weather: mild, overcast, breezy, brightening up later.

Present: JL, IW, RGS

Nets: 12m, a 6m nets each side of feeders

Lure (feeders): peanuts, black sunflower, nyger

Capture (New/Recapture) 9 (6/3):

Blue Tit 3/3	Goldfinch 1/0
Great Spotted Woodpecker 1/0	Great Tit 1/0

Recaptures: 3
Blue Tit 1y 265d Mount Hill Box D05, 259d Mount Hill Box B08, 255d Boxford Common Box F2

Age Range: all 1st winter except
Adult Blue Tit

Sightings 30 Species: Mistle and Song Thrush singing, reasonable flock of Siskin, a few gulls moving west probably to the pig unit near Boxford, just two winter thrushes, a large flock of woodpigeons disturbed from a nearby field, Buzzards and Kites soaring; probably establishing territorial dominance, Rooks flying west and back.

Blackbird 4 Black-headed Gull 8 Blue Tit 10 Buzzard 2 Carrion Crow 2 Chaffinch 4 Coal Tit 1 Dunnock 3 Feral Pigeon 5 Goldfinch 3 Great Spotted Woodpecker 2 Great Tit 4 Herring Gull 2 Jackdaw 10 Jay 3

Lesser Black-backed Gull 16 Magpie 2 Mallard 11 Marsh Tit 1 Mistle Thrush 2 Nuthatch 2 Pheasant 4 Red Kite 2 Redwing 2 Robin 4 Rook 10 Siskin 26 Song Thrush 1 Woodpigeon 160 Wren 3