13/01 Greenham Feeder

Location: Greenham Common Feeder

Session: 13-Jan-2019 0740 to 11:15hrs

Notes: Misjudged the weather by holding off ringing until the weekend, but the wind was just tolerable enough to try and get the first half of January session in. The nets were blowing all over the place as the wind swirled around the feeder so a capture of 33 is quite good. Last year’s matching visit had much more variety and had conditions been better, this year’s total might have been similar; many birds particularly finches could see the swirling nets or bounced out. Take-up of the food at this and the Bagnor feeder has been slow since before Xmas Interesting we captured a Jay on the matching visit; we capture very few these days. We were a bit prompt taking the nets down as conditions were quite uncomfortable although it was not as cold as it can be this time of year.

Weather: very windy, chilly, some blue sky later

Present: JL, JHW, IW, RJC

Nets: 44metres, 12m in west gorse scrub and 12m, 12m 10m around feeder up from 08:00 to 11:00hrs

Lure (feeder): niger, niger, black sunflower, peanuts, black sunflower

Capture (New/Recapture) 33(23/10)	Matching Visit: 09/01/2018 58(21/37)
Species New Rtp 1stCY 2nd+CY BLUTI 6 8 12 2 DUNNO 1 1 GOLDC 2 2 GOLDF 9 8 1 GRETI 6 6 JAY 1 1	Species New Rtp 1stCY 2nd+CY BLABI 1 1 BLUTI 4 13 17 COATI 1 3 3 1 DUNNO 1 1 2 GOLDC 2 1 3 GOLDF 2 2 4 GRSWO 2 1 1 GRETI 3 11 10 4 GREFI 3 2 1 JAY 1 1 LESRE 1 1 MARTI 1 REDWI 1 1 ROBIN 2 2 SONTH 1 1 WREN 1 1

Recaptures: (10) all recent (this winter) except Blue Tit ringed 09/03/2018

Sightings 20 Species: Ian’s list,  probably missed a few, nothing of note, the two buzzards were displaying