21/03 Bagnor Feeder

Location: Bagnor Feeder
Session: 21/03/2023 07:45 to 11:40hrs
Notes: Just Blue and Great Tits again today including some pulli Great Tits, one from a Snelsmore Common nest box and the others from just up the hill from the feeder in the copse on Mount Hill. It was a bit busier than expected especially towards the end of the session.
Present: JL,IW
Weather: overcast with some sunny periods, light breeze, cool
Nets: 12Metres, 2 rides 6M each side of feeder  up from 08:00 to 11:00hrs
Lures: Feeders – Peanuts, Black Sunflower Seed, Niger, Fat Balls

Recaptures:(21)

Blue Tit  ringed: 29/05/2021, 09/11/2021x2, 05/01/2022, 09/11/2022x4, 22/11/2022, 10/02/2023x2, 21/02/2023

Great Tit  ringed: 09/11/2022, 22/11/2022,10/02/2023. 21/02/2023

                 pulli ringed: 15/05/2022 nest box B06, 20/05/2022 box A01, 22/05/2022 box CP27

Sightings: Chiffchaff have arrived this week also a Goldcrest singing there are few of these here

this winter unlike past years when two or three were regular. Most residents in song and the kites

and buzzards were soaring in display over the fields to the north and east. Winter thrushes

including Fieldfare have been scarce this winter so six over east today were probably on their way

back to northern Europe.