06/03 Greenham Feeder

Location: Greenham Feeder
Session: 06/03/2022 07:45 to 11:30hrs
Notes. Session started slowly but picked up later. A bit more species variety mostly from the scrub nets. Greenfinch and Goldfinch are few this winter at this site, so it was nice to ring two of each of these. There are no winter flocks of these species around the feeder even ground feeding with mixed seed is not pulling in any finches and the niger food has mostly remained untouched. Blue Tits dominated as they have at all our feeders this winter.
Present: JL,IW,JHW,DL,IQ,JA
Weather: overcast, breezy, cold.
Nets: 48metres, three 12m nets in gorse scrub and  2 rides of 6M nets one each side of feeder up from 08:00 to 11:00 hrs
Lures: Feeder: Niger, Mixed Seed, Black Sunflower, Peanut and Mixed Seed ground bait.

  

Recaptures:(14)

Blue Tit               ringed: 19/07/2021 (Western Encl.), 16/11/2021 (St Marks), 28/11/2021x3,   12/12/2021, 19/12/2021x3, 08/02/2022x2

Coal Tit               ringed: 03/11/2019

Great Tit             ringed: 18/11/2018, 19/12/2021

Sightings: Ian’s List, quite busy so might have missed a few. Buzzards and Kites display

soaring, several species singing