23/11 Greenham Common

Location: Greenham Common – 616 Feeder.

Session: 23/11/2025 07:40 to 11:15hrs

Present: JHW,JL,IW,KMB. 

Weather: overcast early clearing to bright Sun, Breezy, Cold.

Nets: 6+6M feeder nets plus 18M & 18M & 6M scrub nets up from 08:00 to 11:00hrs.

Lures (Feeder): niger, sunflower hearts, peanuts

            (Audio): GC-SK-LR-GO-BC, intermittently.

The Greenham Feeder

Notes: Was expecting a lot of birds but after the first net round they all but stopped coming to the feeder – Ten on the first net round at the feeder and thirteen of the total came from the scrub nets, most called in by audio lures. Best bird the five year old (2021) Blue Tit that came from the scrub nets. The last visit from KMB for a while, off to Mauritius next week for six months looking after Pink Pigeons.

Recaptures: (11)

Blue Tit ringed 28/11/2021, 14/01/2024, 26/10/2025x5, 09/11/2025x3.

Dunnock ringed 26/10/2025.

Sightings: IW’s list, a few gulls mostly flying westerly and a Mistle Thrush singing for a while in the

treeline to the north.