14/02 Greenham Feeder

Location: 14/02 Greenham Feeder
Session: 14-Feb-2016 07:30 to 11:30hrs
Headlines: A good session today particularly for siskin’s and some good recaptures including a siskin ringed elsewhere. Weather was better than forecast but a little colder than we have become use to.
Weather: Light ground frost, bright sunny periods calm until late on when there was a breeze and fingers suffered from the cold.
Present: JL, JHW, RJC, IW, DL, RGS
Nets: 64metres in 6 rides: 12m to open feeders 12 and 6m to scrub feeder 10m in scrub and two 12m rides in the gorse up from 08:00 to 11:00hrs
Lure (feeders): nygerx4, black sunflowerx2, peanuts
Capture (New/Recapture) 67 (36/31): Blue Tit 8/9, Chaffinch 2/0, Coal Tit 0/1, Dunnock 2/1, Goldfinch 4/1, Great Tit 3/5, Greenfinch 2/0, Lesser Redpoll 1/2, Nuthatch 0/1, Robin 2/1, Siskin 12/8, Wren 0/1
Recaptures: 31 all less than 100 days except:
Blue Tit 5y 106d, 1y 55d, 1y 6d, 261d from Peaked Hill box 19, 112d from Thatcham Marsh, 105dx2.
Dunnock 2y 47d
Goldfinch 103d
Great Tit 4y 72d, 1y 97d, 1y 41d, 105d
Lesser Redpoll 1y 335d
Robin 2y 355d
Wren 1y 90d
Age Range: all 1st winter except:
Adults: Blue Tit 3, Coal Tit 1, Dunnock 1, Goldfinch 1, Great Tit 4, Greenfinch 1, Lesser Redpoll 2, Robin 3, Siskin 7, Wren 1.
Indeterminate Nuthatch 1
Sightings 27 Species: Busy session probably missed a few.

Blackbird 4 Blue Tit 25 Buzzard 4 Canada Goose 10, Chaffinch 7 Carrion Crow 3 Coal Tit 2 Dunnock 4 Goldfinch 20 Golden Plover 200 Greenfinch 10 Great Spotted Woodpecker 2 Great Tit 12

Jackdaw 4 Red Kite 2 Lesser Black-backed 2 Lesser Redpoll 10,  Long-tailed Tit 3 Magpie 3 Mistle Thrush 1 Nuthatch 1 Robin 10 Siskin 30 Song Thrush 1 Woodlark 1 Woodpigeon 25 Wren 2