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Chris Payne committed to some ringing in his Greens Norton garden yesterday morning, quickly catching 47 birds made up mostly of Goldfinches and Greenfinches but a Chiffchaff too. Raw ringing data from all the birds ringed in the UK last year indicates that Goldfinches were the second most common bird ringed (for the first time and second only to Blue Tit), indicating a significant increase in numbers and a growing tendency to utilise garden feeders.
Bob Bullock, Neil Hasdell and Cathy Ryden have all seen a colour-ringed Little Egret at Hollowell Reservoir which was present at the start of the month. It seems that this bird was ringed as a nestling at Netherall in Essex on 7th May 2016, the Northants sightings being nearly 500 days after it was ringed, this bird moving 96km in a north westerly direction.
Jacob notched up some good wader numbers today at Pitsford Reservoir with a Little Stint, 8 Dunlin, 5 Ruff and 24 Ringed Plovers all congregating in the Scaldwell Bay.
A trundle down the road to Davidstow Airfield in Cornwall today provided some close views of waders which included two fine Buff-breasted Sandpipers, and a more distant view of a Spotted Sandpiper on nearby Crowdy Reservoir...
Regards
Neil M
Chris Payne committed to some ringing in his Greens Norton garden yesterday morning, quickly catching 47 birds made up mostly of Goldfinches and Greenfinches but a Chiffchaff too. Raw ringing data from all the birds ringed in the UK last year indicates that Goldfinches were the second most common bird ringed (for the first time and second only to Blue Tit), indicating a significant increase in numbers and a growing tendency to utilise garden feeders.
Bob Bullock, Neil Hasdell and Cathy Ryden have all seen a colour-ringed Little Egret at Hollowell Reservoir which was present at the start of the month. It seems that this bird was ringed as a nestling at Netherall in Essex on 7th May 2016, the Northants sightings being nearly 500 days after it was ringed, this bird moving 96km in a north westerly direction.
Jacob notched up some good wader numbers today at Pitsford Reservoir with a Little Stint, 8 Dunlin, 5 Ruff and 24 Ringed Plovers all congregating in the Scaldwell Bay.
A trundle down the road to Davidstow Airfield in Cornwall today provided some close views of waders which included two fine Buff-breasted Sandpipers, and a more distant view of a Spotted Sandpiper on nearby Crowdy Reservoir...
Regards
Neil M
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| Ringed Plover. |
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| Buff-breasted Sandpiper. |
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