19/12 Greenham Common

Location: Greenham Feeder
Session: 19/12/2021 07:30 to 11:30hrs
Notes: A steady capture spread over most of the session. Nice to ring a Bullfinch, not such a frequent encounter these days. The Blackbird ringed in Oct 2017 at the Western Enclosure may have been a migrant from Northern Europe. A Great Tit and a Blue Tit both ringed Feb 2019 arrived in the same flock of tits. We decided to end the session when it got unpleasantly cold.
Present: JL,IW,JHW,DL
Weather: foggy, damp, calm, cool early much colder when the fog lifted.
Nets: 36metres 3 12M Nets in scrub and 2 rides of 6M nets one each side of feeder up from 08:00 to 10:40hrs

Lures: Feeder: Niger, Black Sunflower, Peanut

Recaptures:(23)

Blackbird ringed: 06/10/2017(Western Enclosure)

Blue Tit    ringed: 17/02/2019,13/01/2020, 21/07/2020(Western Enclosure),

                            19/07/2021(Western Enclosure), 28/11/2021x9, 12/12/2021x3

Great Tit  ringed: 06/02/2019, 28/11/2021, 12/12/2021x2

Sightings: Ian’s list. A low count due mainly to the fog. The Med Gull flew over in the murk,

its wings including tips were white underneath. An adult bird in winter plumage.