Our two woodland edge feeding stations have seen some interesting changes this season. The most unexpected is the appearance of Tree Sparrows at the Challan site. In five years of ringing we have not caught a Tree Sparrow but this season so far w…
The gritting season is now almost over . To date we have recorded 153 sghtings of colour ringed birds mostly on the grit trays In total we have identified 27 adult males(five more than in 2018) and 14 adult females. We have two male…
Its been a rather difficult season for our study. Late season ringing has been impossible because of high water levels which flooded all the access paths at Leighton Moss RSPB reserve making out boardwalks dangerous to use. However the high…
Although we have ringed 9620 Chaffinch up to the end of 2018 we have just had our first recovery in southern Sweden. It was caught by a ringer on 4th April this year and was originally ringed at a garden feeder on 26th November 2016. …
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. …