Session: 31-Jul-2016 06:00 to
10:30hrs
Headlines: Some movement today.
Best bird the Grasshopper Warbler that turned up in the nets before the audio
of its song was played. Swallows were flitting through and around for most of
the morning and the usual six House Martins flew around the nets a few times
giving hope of a capture but no such luck. As usual relatively quiet,
Swallows, Goldfinches responded to audio but just one of the latter captured.
Two Dartford Warblers flew around the end of a net as I was taking it down. First time
for a while that we have ringed on the common on a Sunday; not as many people
around as expected.
Weather: sunny periods mostly
warm, sometimes breezy.
Present: JL, IW, JHW
Nets: 84M in five rides of
18M, 18M, 12M 18M, 18M up from 06:30 until 10:00hrs
Lure (audio ): Blackcap,
Chiffchaff, Firecrest, Goldcrest, Whitethroat, Lesser Whitethroat, Garden
Warbler, Linnet, Grasshopper Warbler, Stonechat, Goldfinch, Swallow intermittently.
Capture (New/Recapture) 22 (22/0) : Blackbird
1/0, Blackcap 3/0, Blue Tit 1/0, Chiffchaff 2/0, Garden Warbler 2/0, Goldfinch
1/0, Grasshopper Warbler 1/0, Great Tit 1/0, Whitethroat 2/0, Willow Warbler
7/0, Wren 1/0
Recaptures: None
Age Range: all juveniles except
adults: Blue Tit 1, Willow Warbler 5
Juvenile Grasshopper Warbler first one captured by me on the common.
Last one captured by NRG July 2013 at Thatcham Marsh LNR
Sightings 36 Species: Surprising
no raptors seen except far away to the south. Searching the sky towards
Newbury produces at least five Swifts. Six Spot Burnet Moths were on the wing with
Small White, Common Blue, Gatekeeper and Grayling Butterflies. Ian ID a rare-ish
chalk loving plant from a photo by a passing dog walker; she was most
impressed but I have forgotten the name of the plant. A Roe Buck pursued a Doe around the heath
for most of the morning.
Canada Goose 2+
Black-headed Gull 1
Feral Pigeon 5
Woodpigeon 13+
Green Woodpecker 2+
Magpie 2+
Carrion Crow 5+
Great Tit 1+
Swallow 6+
Long-tailed Tit 8+
Willow Warbler 7+
Garden Warbler 3+
Dartford Warbler 2
Nuthatch 1+
Blackbird 4+
Stonechat 2+
Bullfinch 4
Linnet 20+
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Little Egret 1
Lesser Black-backed Gull 1
Stock Dove 4+
Swift 5+
Great Spotted Woodpecker 2+
Jackdaw 32+
Blue Tit 2+
Woodlark 1+
House Martin 11+
Chiffchaff 3+
Blackcap 3+
Whitethroat 2+
Grasshopper Warbler 1
Wren 3+
Robin 2+
Meadow Pipit 3+
Greenfinch 2+
Goldfinch 10+
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