20/02 Bagnor Feeder

Location: Bagnor Feeder CES 2023/24.08

Session: 20/02/2024 07:45 to 12:00hrs

Notes: The final CES of the 2023/24 winter, as usual, dominated by Blue Tits with a few other species including Goldfinch-5 and Greenfinch-1. Some Siskin flying about but none came to the feeder while we were there.

Present: JL,IW.

Weather: Overcast, couple of bright periods, light breeze. cool

Nets: 12M of nets, 6M each side of the feeders from 08:00 to 11:00hrs.

Lures: Feeders with Peanuts, Sunflower Hearts, Niger, Fat Balls.

Recaptures:(23) nest box prefixes CP and WH Snelsmore Common, others Bagnor Est Mount Hill.

Blue Tit    ringed: 19/11/2019, 10/12/2021, 10/02/2023, 05/11/2023 (Snelsmore), 21/11/2023x3,

                 07/11/2023, 15/12/2023, 12/01/2024, 26/01/2024, 02/02/2024x2.                      

                pulli ringed: 20/05/2023 nest box WH13, 23/05/2023 box C05, 

                23/05/2023 box F07, 26/05/2023 box B02, 26/05/2023 box C03, 26/05/2023 box D03.

Great Tit  ringed: 26/01/2024

Long-tailed Tit ringed: 07/11/2023

Sighting: Kites very active, at least 9 in view on occasions, also Buzzards and Sparrowhawk soaring. A small flock of noisy Siskin in the scrub trees near the feeder probably dropping in to drink from the cress bed. They usually drink just by the feeder in the Winterbourne stream but this latter very fast flowing and deep at the moment.