Paid our third visit this summer to Jerry and Barbara’s woodland edge garden in Silverdale. With only one 40 ft net we caught 80 birds. Our main interest in this garden is a colour ring study of Nuthatch, so we were pleased to catch two unringed young …
The last two days has seen two good catches to bolster our returns for our Bearded Tit and Reed Warbler RAS at Leighton Moss RSPB reserve.A male Bearded Tit first ringed as a juvenile in 2014 was retrapped five years and 50 days after ringing. Th…
Now got all the results in for our Pied Flycatcher RAS based in 20 upland woods in the Lune Valley. We had 104 occupied nest boxes four down on 2018 but success rate was better with 79 producing young compared to 68 last year. Predati…
Over the years our Group has ringed 11,557 Pied Flycatchers mainly as part of our RAS in the Lune Valley. We have had many recoveries and controls but a recent recovery was our first on spring migration in Britain. It had been ringed as a nestling in J…
Over the years our Group has ringed 11,557 Pied Flycatchers mainly as part of our RAS in the Lune Valley. We have had many recoveries and controls but a recent recovery was our first on spring migration in Britain. It had been ringed as a nestling in J…
Following on from John’s post, I paid my first trip to the nest boxes in Pott Yeats, Littledale today. There are 43 boxes there that have held small numbers of Pied Flycatchers in recent years, 2018 was typical with 5 pairs all successful. …
With a couple of visits to most of our woodland sites in the Lune valley we are getting first impressions of this years Pied Flycatcher population. Last year we had 108 pairs in nest boxes in our 16 woods providing a RAS study. First impressions are th…
It appears to be an early spring with both Reed Warbler and Pied Flycatcher for example arriving very early. Our ringing has shown some quick movement in Lesser Redpolls. One ringed in a Cheshire garden on March 24th was caught at a feeder …
Today there was at least 2300 Godwits on the Eric Morecambe Complex on the edge of Morecambe Bay. But with high spring tides most were on the flooded salt marsh. During the first half of March we have sighted five colour ringed birds. …
Black-tailed Godwit have started arriving in reasonable numbers at Leighton Moss in recent days. Several of these have long histories of spring sightings at Leighton and other very local sites having spent the winter further south on the Dee.&nbs…