10/11 Snelsmore Common Feeder

Location: Snelsmore Common Feeder Session: 10_Nov-2016 07:30 to 11:10hrs Headlines: The only bird seen at the feeders to date since I put them up was a Great Spotted Woodpecker on the 08/11 so I had very low expectations for today. A nine birds capture is low, but at least we captured some. This site is usually very good for Coal Tit as well as the usual Blue & Great Tits but not many are visiting any of the feeders yet. Hopefully they are foraging in the trees still, as autumn has been very mild until the last week or so. We don’t recapture many pulli Nuthatch so one from box CP07 (about 30metres from the feeder) is a good start otherwise as with the Estover feeder very quiet. Weather: Sunny periods, relatively calm, cool Present: JL, IW Nets: 12metres in two rides 6M, 6M each side of feeders up from 08:00 to 11:oo hrs Lure (feeders): Fatballs, Black Sunflower, Peanuts Capture (New/Recapture) 9 (7/2): Species New Retrap 1st CY Adult Blue Tit 3 1 1 3 Coal Tit 1   1   Great Tit 3   2 1 Nuthatch   1 1   Recaptures: (2) Blue Tit 1y 2d, Nuthatch 181d pulli from box CP07   For interest here are species list for the 1st visit from previous five years. It look like there was a low capture in 2013 that I had forgotten so hopefully numbers will increase as the season progresses. 2015 85 Blue Tit 38 Coal Tit 27 Great Tit 16 Marsh Tit 2 Nuthatch 1 Robin 1 2014 87 Blue Tit 34 Coal Tit 14 Great Spot 1 Great Tit 36 Marsh Tit 1 Nuthatch 1 2013 15 Blue Tit 7 Chaffinch 1 Coal Tit 5 Great Tit 2 2012 50 Blue Tit 24 Coal Tit 11 Great Spot 1 Great Tit 17 2011 50 Blue Tit 33 Chaffinch 2 Coal Tit 1 Goldcrest 1 Great Spot 1 Great Tit 11 Robin 1   Sightings 25 Species:  A steady flow of Rooks and Lesser Black-backed Gulls south and croaking Ravens the only notable sightings. Nine Little Egrets in the trees near Duck Cottage on the Bagnor to Winterbourne road on my way back is the largest gathering I have seen for sometime.