Two controls received today, both at Icklesham in East Sussex on the south coast are good examples of the quick movement of our summer visitors at this time of year. – A Sedge Warbler on July 31st just six days after ringing and a Sa…
The numbers of Mediterranean Gulls appearing in late summer to mid/late September around Heysham outfalls has increased markedly in recent years, in contrast to the status at other times where there has in fact been a decline (spring passage) or no…
One of the great things about reasonably standardised ringing is that it gives you some insight into the productivity of the most frequently ringed species. It’s early days yet but there are a few indicators from our two regular ringing sites in the Si…
Our Pied Flycatcher RAS spread across 19 upland woods in the Lune valley in Northern Lancashire has been completed for this season.Following last seasons good productivity we hoped for an increase in the breeding population. We were not disappointed, t…
Yesterdays ringing on our Reed Warbler and Bearded tit RAS studies at Leighton Moss RSPB was rather spoilt by a sudden upsurge in wind mid morning. However of the three Reed Warbler retraps two were very interesting. The first had been ringed at Leight…
Another visit to Jerry and Barbara’s woodland edge garden brought 57 birds in two short nets in just two hours. Almost all were young birds suggesting a successful breeding season. Of the 33 tits only one, a Great Tit was an adult. The one …
Paid our first post breeding season visit to Jerry and Barbara’s woodland edge garden. With just two short nets we caught 50 birds. We expected to catch young tits and of 25 tits caught only one was an adult. We also caught 3 young Nuthatch which…
Now got the data for about half our RAS study of Pied Flycatchers in the Lune valley woodlands.So far it has been a good season although there has been three reports of nest box predation by either weasels or stoats.So far in total we have ringed or re…
The Group has over the years ringed 3390 Siskin, these have produced 112 recoveries or controls. We have just received our first recovery from Norway as shown on the map below. It fell victim to a cat on May 6th just 43 days after ringing in Dave’s gar…
Over the years our Group has ringed 4674 Reed Bunting mainly during or just after the breeding season. These have shown a southward movement in winter with seven recoveries in the Cheshire/Merseyside area, three in Shropshire and singles in Kent,…