Sorry folks. Today is Barn Owls again, just like last Friday. Friend Steve made contact to say that his Barn Owls were probably ready to ring. I readied large bird bags and a set of “G” rings and arranged to meet Bryan over at Steve’s place. …
Dare we even think it, let alone say it? At last an old-fashioned British summer where the sun shines from dawn to dusk, a knotted handkerchief the must-have headgear and Lobster Red in vogue. After the coldest May on record we may be headed for …
Saturday morning, 17 July. My usual ringing pal Andy is laid up for some weeks following his knee op this week. Regrettably that means he will lose his part time job as a Car Park Attendant as he won’t have the essential qualifications of a lop-sided l…
Here’s a story with conclusions that may not be all that surprising to many bird watchers. It’s about birds’ sense of smell, a subject tackled here on Another Bird Blog in December 2014. https://anotherbirdblog.blogspot.com/2014/12/do-birds-smell…
Here’s a new header, the one that caused all the Blogger problems. This new header will provoke comments and questions to rival Blogger once again changing things that work. How do I know there will be comments? The answer is that a po…
Friday’s ringing session at Oakenclough began with a cracker of a bird, an immaculate, recently fledged Redstart with a fiery orange tail. It’s a species that we rarely catch at Oakenclough, perhaps one or two each year in habitat that lacks the …
Tuesday morning 29 June. Catching and ringing the Sand Martins was the easy bit. Later that day and back home with a cup of coffee at hand I had the wearisome job of entering each of 59 Sand Martins onto the BTO DemOn database via the day’s field…
We have a further sighting of a Spotted Flycatcher we ringed at Oakenclough back on 7 September 2019. Thanks to the person who found Spotted Flycatcher AKE3299 as a breeding bird in May and June 2021 we have an unexpected and extraordinary record….
Information arrived from French ringers of ring number 8998514 we caught at Cockerham on 5 June 2021. https://anotherbirdblog.blogspot.com/2021/06/a-french-bonus.html 8998514 – Museum Paris“Here are the details of a ringed bird you have repo…
Late May/early June can be boom or bust for bird ringers and birders alike. In early 2021 unpredictability became the norm when unseasonal cold air, regular frosts and nagging northerlies played havoc with springtime migration from Africa to Europe. La…