Location:
Thatcham Marsh LNR CES Visit 2025.02
Session: 10/05/2025 06:00 to 11:15hrs.
Present:
JHW,JL,CMD,IW,JA.
Weather: bright sunny, cool early
warm later, light breeze.
Nets: 198M long reed bed ride up from 06:30
to 10:30hrs.
Lures (): None.
Today’s
Jay
Notes: A reasonable session, the highlight being the Jay, a first ringing
for CMD. We trapped a Chaffinch, but it had the start of grotty foot (papilloma
varus) making the leg thicker than normal and it could not be ringed. Most
birds were in breeding condition though some Reed and Sedge Warblers had not
yet developed BPs or CPs. The Blue Tit ringed at St Marks in 2021 is becoming a regular. JHW brought his coffee machine but unfortunately it
developed a gas leak, and fire enveloped the burner unit which he manage to put
out fortunately.
FG =age indeterminate
Recaptures: (22)
Blue Tit ringed: 19/12/2021
(St Marks Road), 25/08/2024.
Cetti’s Warbler ringed: 30/04/2023,
06/10/2024, 13/04/2025
Chiffchaff ringed:
03/04/2022.
Dunnock ringed:
25/08/2024, 13/04/2025.
Great Tit ringed:
11/05/2024.
Reed Warbler ringed: 21/05/2022,
13/05/2023, 03/06/2023, 11/06/2023x2 02/07/2023, 01/06/2024.
Robin ringed: 10/07/2022
Sedge Warbler ringed:
13/04/2025, 03/05/2025.
Wren ringed: 03/07/2022
Sightings: The Red-legged Partridge
(unusual for here) was being harass by two Magpies as
I drove down the track.
The Water Rail called from the regenerating reed not the usual place further
up
the ride. Four Buzzards soared quite high up, the Swallow was also spotted high
up when
watching buzzards. The Oystercatcher flew north at nets down. A good
selection of dragonfly and
butterfly on the wing.
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