30/08 Greenham Common

Location: Greenham Common Western Enclosure (wk35)
Session: 30/08/2023 07:30 to 10:50hrs

Yesterday's 1st year male Redstart has almost completed juvenile moult.

and 

today's male Redstart is partway through juvenile moult - note faint eye strip etc.

Notes: Yet another Redstart and Firecrest, both males, made a fledging C ringer very happy. There seems to be several Redstarts around the common this week; at least five on Monday. More Chiffchaff and Blackcap and three more Willow Warblers made for a steady 2.5hrs ringing.
Present: JL,RAD,IW.
Weather: cloudy with sunny periods, light breeze, cool
Nets: 48metres 3 Rides, 18M, 18M and 12M up from 08:00 to 10:30hrs
Lures: (BC-CC-WW-GW-WH-LW-GC-FC),(W-WC-SF-RZ-TP),(GH-RW-SW-RB-AW),(RT-YB-GC-FC) intermittently.

Recaptures: (00)

Sightings: Not much visual movement around/over the heath at all today. No sign of the regular Starling or Goldfinch gatherings or the usual Jackdaw traffic northwest out from the bunkers. A fast flying dragonfly was probably a migrant hawker from size etc but not sure.