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…
We have continued our colour ringed study of Nuthatch visiting Jerry and Barbara’s woodland edge garden at Silverdale. They usually see no more than two birds visiting their feeders at once but since late summer 2018 we have seen or caught 19 birds. In…
With almost all the data in for the year we have ringed 10750 new birds, although with retraps and sightings we have details of almost 14000 captures.Top of the pile as usual is Blue Tit with 2263 followed by Goldfinch at 1059 and Pied Flyc…
One of the many things that has come out of the Knot work at Formby is the vast amount of data being produced by a small team of dedicated observers which nearly 4,000 observations being made. These are all really valuable and without your help m…
So far to date we have ringed 962 Goldfinch our best year ever. Its interesting to look back over the years and trace the increase of Goldfinch both as a breeding bird in our area and of course as a bird at feeding stations where most of our birds are…