The Wilderness Bird Ringing

Hello,

At the Wilderness today a ringing session  took place catching ninety eight birds in total, fifty seven being new birds and the remaining forty one were retrapped. The highlights being two Great Spotted Woodpecker, three Nuthatch, one male Sparrowhawk and one Goldcrest. Other birds included one Greenfinch, two Blackbird, five Dunnock, four Goldfinch, one Chaffinch, forty four Blue Tits, twenty three Great Tits, four Coals Tits, six Long Tailed Tits and two Robins.

Other birds on site included two Ravens.

Jacob

Weekend Sum-Up

Hello,

Yesterday had three different sites ringed at, the first one was Christies Copse at Pitsford Reservoir. Here there is many feeders suspended leading to many Woodland birds taking advantage of this, these include Jays, Robins, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Goldfinch, Greenfinch Marsh tit and sometimes if you are lucky you will be there while a Willow Tit is.

The birds we caught and ringed were 9 new and 37 re-trap mostly adult Blue Tits, 21 Great Tits (one Great Tit was ringed over four years ago as a juvenile), 6 Coal Tits, 2 Marsh Tits (one had a White Tail, photographed below, 5 Chaffinches and 2 Robins.

The birds on site included 20 Golden Plovers and 2 Woodcock.

The next site was Rectory Farm near Pitsford Reservoir, this caught a handful of birds but all of good quality birds, here caught 11 birds including a Long Tailed Tit which was first caught at Pitsford on the CES 6 years ago as a juvenile, a male Yellowhammer, 1 Fieldfare which was regrowing its tail which was half as short to normal ones and 7 Blackbirds were one was caught at Harrington Airfield in early November. The birds on-site here was hundreds of Fieldfare, large flocks of mixed finches, Song Thrush, Redwing, Meadow Pipit, Sky Larks, Tree Sparrows, Kestrel (flew in the barn we were in), Buzzard and Sparrowhawk.

In the evening a visit to the Yacht club provided views to the pair of Ruddy Shelduck and a 1st Winter Mediterranean Gull. Birds caught there were three Moorhens which were all ringed and caught as a group before.

Today hasn't held much birding but birds down School Lane, Scaldwell were Buzzards and Red Kites with Bullfinches, Meadow Pipits, Song Thrush and Redwing. The birds in the garden however have been feeding franticly, the star birds were a male Lesser Redpoll, Song Thrush and a Single Bullfinch.

Sincerely,

Jacob