30/04 Thatcham Marsh LNR

Location: Thatcham Marsh LNR CES 2023.01 of 12
Session: 30/04/2023 07:00 to 11:30hrs
Notes: Last week’s Sedge Warbler ringed elsewhere had been ringed on 31-07-2021 at Icklesham, East Sussex. Today’s session was the first Constant Effort Visit of the year, our 30th year excluding 2020 when covid restrictions were in place and there was no ringing at this site. Not a bad session similar to last years matching visit but more species variety including another spring Whitethroat.
Present: IW,JHW,JL,RAD,DL,NC
Weather: Overcast foggy early sunny periods later, calm, cool.
Nets: 198Metres, 1 reed bed ride up from 6:30 to 10:30hrs
Lures: None.

Recaptures:(14)
Blue Tit               ringed: 23/07/2022
Cetti’s Warbler   ringed: 11/04/2022
Chiffchaff             ringed:  03/04/2022, 08/05/2022
Dunnock              ringed: 18/09/2022
Long-tailed Tit     ringed:11/06/2022, 11/09/2022, 02/04/2023, 23/04/2023
Reed Bunting     ringed: 02/04/2023
Reed Warbler     ringed: 21/05/2022
Sedge Warbler   ringed: 19/06/2022, 23/04/2023
Wren                   ringed: 28/08/2022

Sighting: The first Swifts of the year for some of us so was the Lesser Whitethroat and Cuckoo.