Tuesday, 16 August 2016

16/08 Greenham Common Western Enclosure

Location: Greenham  Common Western Enclosure
Session: 16-Aug-2016 06:00 to 11:00hrs
Headlines: No build up of migrants today, just a trickle through the site; Willow Warbler dominated, usual for the early mid-August period, with five sylvia warblers and a couple of resident species making up the numbers. Stonechat and Dartford Warbler were quite active but avoided the nets as usual.
Weather: Bright, Sunny, calm, more cloud and breezy later.
Present: JL, RJC, IW, RGS
Nets: 48Metres in three rides of 18M, 18M, 12M up from 06:30 to 10:35hrs
Lure (audio): Blackcap, Chiffchaff, Firecrest, Goldcrest, Willow Warbler, Whitethroat, Redstart, Goldfinch, Dartford Warbler intermittently
Capture (New/Recapture) 15 (14/1): Blackcap 3/0, Chiffchaff 1/0, Goldfinch 1/0, Great Tit 1/0, Whitethroat 2/0, Willow Warbler 6/0, Wren 0/1
Recaptures: 1 a juvenile Wren ringed 16 days ago
Age Range: all 1st CY except adult Great Tit 1

Sightings 31 Species: Little activity in the surrounding bushes and scrub, Pheasant have recently become more vocal. Linnet numbers have dropped to single figures. A steady flow of Swallows over, some were going North West?
Blackbird 2+
Blackcap 5+
Blue Tit 3+
Buzzard 2+
Canada Goose 9+
Carrion Crow 2+
Chiffchaff 5+
Dartford Warbler 1+
Feral Pigeon 2
Goldfinch 6+
Great Spotted Woodpecker 2+
Great Tit 1+
Green Woodpecker 2+
House Martin 4+
Jackdaw 10+
Lapwing 1
 
Linnet 5+
Long-tailed Tit 3+
Magpie 4+
Mallard 3
Pheasant 1
Robin 3+
Song Thrush 1+
Starling 6+
Stonechat 4+
Swallow 12+
Whitethroat 2+
Willow Warbler 10+
Woodlark 2
Woodpigeon 8+
Wren 5+

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