17/09 Greenham Common

Location: Greenham Common Western Enclosure

Session: 17-Sep-2019 07:20 to 11:10 hrs

Notes: I am expecting a spike in Chiffchaff numbers soon but it wasn’t today. Blackcaps mostly males and number perhaps slowing. The surprise was a Marsh Tit not a species normally out on the heath. Two Stonechats finally got careless enough to be trapped in the net. 

Weather: sunny period, warming, breezy.

Present: JL, IW, RJC

Nets: 48metres in three rides of 18m, 18m, 12m up from 07:45 to 10:45hrs

Lure (audio): misc. migrants, warblers, redstart, yellow-browed warbler intermittently 

Capture (New/Recapture) 30(28/02) 8 Species	Matching Visit: (Tues) no visit
Species New Rtp Juv Adult BLACA 12 12 BLUTI 5 1 5 1 CHIFF 3 3 DUNNO 2 2 GRETI 2 1 2 1 MARTI 1 1 ROBIN 1 1 STOCH 1 1 1 1	Species New Rtp Juv Adult

Recaptures: (2) CHIFF ringed 21/08/2019, GRETI ringed 12/09/2018

Sightings 26 Species: Heard the Woodlark when putting the nets up but could not find them later so not sure if it was the usual flock. Similarly a calling Raven went over somewhere unseen.

Blackbird (2)                                              Blackcap (12)                                            Blue Tit (6)                                                Buzzard (2)                                                Carrion Crow (2)                                      Chiffchaff (4)                                             Dunnock (4)                                              Goldfinch (5)                                             Great Spotted Woodpecker (2)             Great Tit (3)                                              Green Woodpecker (1)                           Jackdaw (4)                                              Jay (3)

Linnet (3)                                                   Magpie (8)                                                 Marsh Tit (1)                                             Meadow Pipit (5)                                      Nuthatch (1)                                              Raven (1)           Red Kite (1)                                               Reed Bunting (1)                                      Robin (1)                                                    Stonechat (10)                                          Woodlark (2+)                                           Woodpigeon (5)                                       Wren (1)