Today seemed the only day with wind low enough for mist netting and we decided to go to Wraysbury. We had six nets up and, over the morning tried for Fieldfare, Redwing, Chiff-chaff, Blackcap, Goldcrest and Firecrest.
There were a lot of winter thrushes in the area around the nets, but few came to the tapes and we spent most of our time watching them fly into and out of the tops of bushes. That said we did manage one Fieldfare and three Redwings. We found a lot of Chiff-chaff on the Stanwell Moor site at our most recent visit, however there was none apparent at this site. Blackcap was tried since we hold some colour ring combinations for over winterers, but again no luck. Goldcrest made up half the catch today, showing that the site holds reasonable numbers of these little birds in the winter months - and a Firecrest was probably best bird of the day.
3F Fieldfare
3M Firecrest
Totals: 17 (2)
Fieldfare - 1
Redwing - 3
Robin - 2
Goldcrest - 8 ( 1 retrap, 1 control KKD 760)
Firecrest - 1
Long-tailed Tit - 1
Blue Tit - 1