01/02 Greenham Common Feeder

Location: Greenham Common Feeder.

Session: 01/02/2026 07:45 to 10:30hrs

Present: JHW, JL, IW, RAD, CMD, Chl.

Weather: calm, cool, light rain began just after nets up.

Nets: 6+6M feeder nets up from 08:00 to 08:45hrs.

Lures (Feeder): sunflower heartsx2, peanuts.

Notes: It began spotting with rain as we put the nets up and unfortunately unlike previous recent sessions the rain didn’t stop forcing us to take the nets down at around 08:45hrs. We had two good rounds of 22 and 19 though. If it hadn’t rained think we would have had a good session. Due to the curtailed session it’s perhaps not relevant but we only trapped one Great Tit, similar to winter 2025/26 Snelsmore feeder sessions; is something affecting this species?

Recaptures: (12)

Blue Tit ringed: 23/12/2023, 26/10/2025x2, 09/11/2025x2, 21/12/2025x2, 18/01/2026,

Coal Tit ringed: 09/11/2025

Goldfinch ringed: 26/10/2025.

Sightings: IW’s list – at first light there was a flock of finches in nearby trees probably Lesser Redpoll, but we were unsure of the species as the light was very poor. We would have had a few more species if the session hadn’t been rained off.