22/11 Bagnor Feeder

Location: Bagnor Feeder CES 2022/23.2
Session: 22/11/2022 07:45 to 11:25hrs
Notes: A quiet session compared to the 1st visit to this feeder. All Blue or Great Tits apart from a Robin and a Chaffinch. The reduction in numbers was probably due to the Black Sunflower feeder being empty when I topped up yesterday morning. Would be nice to get a bit more species variety, but visitors other than Blue and Great Tit seem to be scarce at this feeder. A bit sad today since my pulli trainer and ringing colleague Reg Smith left us Sunday after a  long illness.
Present: JL,IW
Weather: Sunny periods, calm, cool
Nets: 12M 2 rides 6M each side of feeder up 08:00 to 11:00hrs
Lures: Feeders – Peanuts, Black Sunflower Seed, Niger, Fat Balls 

Adult male Chaffinch

Recaptures:(20)

Blue Tit                      ringed: 18/12/2019, , 05/12/2021x2, 09/11/2022x8                                                                                  pulli ringed: 20/05/2022x2 both from Box C05 (Mount Hill)

Great Tit                    ringed: 09/11/2022x5

                                 pulli ringed: 17/05/2022 Box B01 (Mount Hill)

                                                     20/05/2022 Box F05 (Boxford Common)

Sightings: the Barn Owl flew from the top box when we walked the field perimeter during a quiet spell, the Sparrowhawk was a high flying female, first sighting here for about two years of Fallow Deer up on Mount Hill.