29/07 Greenham Common

Location: Greenham Common Western Enclosure (wk30)

Session: 29/07/2022 07:30 to 10:50hrs

Notes: Some more Blackcap and Garden Warbler, two Goldcrest and a Whitethroat were the main interest today. Seems to have been a good year for Blue Tits. Phylos warblers are a bit scarce, Willow Warbler in particular; their peak week through is week 32 and numbers should have begun to increase this week but no sign so far. The only one detected was singing rather feebly out on the heath for about five minutes when we were putting the nets up. Unusual to re-trap a Garden Warbler from a week or so back, the don't usually hang around this time of year.

Present: JL,IW

Weather: bright, sunny, clear, light breeze, warm

Nets: 48metres 3 Rides, 18M, 18M and 12M up  from 08:00 to 10:30 hrs

Lures: Warblers, Misc Migrants, Grasshopper Warbler, Redstart, intermittently.

Recaptures:(01)

Garder Warbler        ringed: 08/07/2022

Sightings: Think the heat subdued any visable movement. The Fox looked to be a youngster  that ran across the heath from the Sandleford direction and disappeared in the gorse nearby. There was probably a Black-bodied Chaser that interacted with the Brown Hawker briefly  and disappeared before I could be sure. No Greenfinch today, the several family parties have moved off it seems. One call from a Skylark  going over somewhere up in the blue; seems a bit early for passage.