Session:
Notes: Not much coming to
this feeder since the turn of the year; I think most visit later in the day. When
topping up the feeders the later in the morning I get there the more activity;
might have to try a mid-day session sometime. In comparison to last year’s
matching visit todays’ capture is quite good though. No sign of any winter
finches yet. In previous years from mid-January on they usually begin to
attend this feeder in ever increasing numbers into April. The only sign of
them this year so far has been a very bright male Lesser Redpoll seen when
topping up the Snelsmore Feeder last week. I have not found any flocks of this
species since the Autumn passage. The few Siskins that have frequented Bagnor
since October seem to have moved on as I have not detected them this week on
my two visits there. I note that both species are turning up at feeders to the
east and west of West Berkshire. Even the local Goldfinch flocks are fewer in
number compared to a year or so ago. The pulli Blue Tit ringed in Bowdown nest
box 10 had a deformed lower mandible, not noted in a previous recapture It was
good to recapture one of the pulli ringed in nest box PK23 from south of the
heathland.
Weather: Present:
Nets:
Lure (feeder):
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GRETI ringed 05/11/2017
Sightings 20 Species: very quiet, only sign of movement the Lesser Black-backed Gulls
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