29/05 Thatcham Marsh LNR

Location: Thatcham Marsh LNR CES 4 of 12
Session: 29/05/2022 06:00 to 11:00hrs
Present:IW,DL,JHW,IQ,JL,NC
Weather: cloudy, cool, calm early, light breeze later.
Nets: 208metres in 2 rides, 18Mx11 reed bed ride and 10M scrub ride up from 06:30 to 10:30 hrs
Lures: None 
Notes: It started raining as I left home stopping just after I got to site. The 2017 Blue Tit (6Years) was ringed as a juvenile and had been re-trapped in 2017 and 2019 as well as today. Otherwise, it was relatively quiet. Acrocephalus numbers on site are still quite low but there is still a week or two left for late returning Reed Warblers to arrive as in past years. Some more juveniles, three Blue Tits and an apparently unaccompanied Long-tailed Tit; unusual for the latter to be on its own. A slightly better capture than last year’s matching visit.

Recaptures:(14)
Blackbird           ringed: 10/04/2022
Blue Tit              ringed: 03/06/2017
Cetti’s Warbler   ringed: 05/05/2019.
Great Tit            ringed: 07/07/2019
Reed Bunting    ringed: 01/50/2021
Reed Warbler    ringed: 05/05/2019, 12/06/2021x2, 08/05/2022, 21/05/2022x3
Sedge Warbler  ringed: 08/05/2022, 21/05/2022

Wren                 ringed: 07/07/2019 

Sightings: 40 Bird Species Cuckoo still calling both male and female, several swifts circling over, a Kingfisher flew through, Common Blue and Large Red  Damselfly on the wing in addition to the Beautiful  Demoiselle that were also present on the last visit.