Hello
Another cool spring day but thankfully with less wind today.
Highlights in our neighbourhood was the Barn Owl again hunting in broad daylight at Lamport, plus a pair of Grey Partridge and about five hundred Fieldfares in the Brampton Valley between Hanging Houghton and Blueberry Farm, Maidwell. Birds in our rural garden continue to attract a nice variety of common birds with the buntings and wagtails stealing the show.
A couple of ringing recoveries have been received as follows:-
1. A first year Blue Tit ringed at Scotland Wood on the Kelmarsh Estate on 23rd March 2019 was then trapped by ringers at Pytchley Bridge, Springhill, Rugby, Warwickshire on 29th January 2020. This was 312 days later with this young bird displacing 24km in a WSW direction;
2. An adult female Chiffchaff was ringed at Chase Park Farm, Yardley Chase on 2nd July 2019 and seemingly the same bird was then caught again at Sobradiel/Utebo, Zaragoza, Spain - 109 days later on 19th October 2019 and 1163km further south!
Regards
Neil M
Another cool spring day but thankfully with less wind today.
Highlights in our neighbourhood was the Barn Owl again hunting in broad daylight at Lamport, plus a pair of Grey Partridge and about five hundred Fieldfares in the Brampton Valley between Hanging Houghton and Blueberry Farm, Maidwell. Birds in our rural garden continue to attract a nice variety of common birds with the buntings and wagtails stealing the show.
A couple of ringing recoveries have been received as follows:-
1. A first year Blue Tit ringed at Scotland Wood on the Kelmarsh Estate on 23rd March 2019 was then trapped by ringers at Pytchley Bridge, Springhill, Rugby, Warwickshire on 29th January 2020. This was 312 days later with this young bird displacing 24km in a WSW direction;
2. An adult female Chiffchaff was ringed at Chase Park Farm, Yardley Chase on 2nd July 2019 and seemingly the same bird was then caught again at Sobradiel/Utebo, Zaragoza, Spain - 109 days later on 19th October 2019 and 1163km further south!
Regards
Neil M
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| Blue Tit. |
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