Thursday 25 October 2018

Ringing in Glyn Davies Wood

Hello

A ringing session was completed at Glyn Davies Wood today with 136 birds being caught and processed, 124 of which were new birds. This small woodland is in the far west of the county (near Boddington village) and in due course will be adversely affected by the HS2 project. In the meantime though the feed stations maintained by the Banbury Ornithological Society provides supplementary food for many woodland birds and provides an opportunity to assess how many birds make use of this splintered but ancient woodland. A small party of Siskins and a single Redpoll were noted in the wood.

The birds processed today were made up of 49 Great Tits, 46 Blue Tits, 6 Coal Tits, 4 Marsh Tits, 7 Long-tailed Tits, 2 Treecreepers, 3 Wrens, a Robin, 11 Goldcrests, 2 Blackbirds, 4 Nuthatches and a Great Spotted Woodpecker.

One of the Great Tits and one of the Long-tailed Tits were first ringed there in December 2015 and one of the Blue Tits was recently ringed at Priors Marston.

A short visit to Ravensthorpe Reservoir this afternoon provided views of a Green Sandpiper, a Snipe, a Chiffchaff and three Siskins. This afternoon a Grey Wagtail was in our garden examining the new garden pond!

Regards

Neil M


Nuthatch.

Great Tit. This young female
bird is exhibiting what appear
to be rapidly developing growths.
She was otherwise in good condition
and a healthy weight but these lesions
are likely to grow and reduce life
expectancy.


Adult male Blue Tit. Of the 46
Blue Tits handled today this was
the only adult - all the others were
birds hatched this year!

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