Northamptonshire Birding: Ringing recoveries

Hello

We have details now of a series of ringing recoveries associated with the activities of Northants Ringing Group members as follows:-

1. A juvenile Robin ringed at Pitsford Reservoir on 8th September 2021 was found dead in Earls Barton on or about 27th April this year, this bird moving 13km in a south easterly direction post ringing. Two hundred and thirty-one days had elapsed between the two records;

2. A young Magpie was ringed at Brixworth on 3rd August last year and was destroyed near Lamport on or about 10th April this year 'for Nature Protection', this bird moving 3km from where first ringed and displacing in a north-easterly direction before it's demise two hundred and fifty days later;

3. A first year Redwing was caught and ringed at Harrington Airfield on 12th December 2021 and was found dead as a suspected road casualty in Norway at Hjellestad, Bergen 129 days later and 952km from where first ringed on or about 20th April 2022. This bird had survived the winter and had headed back in a NNE direction;

Redwing movement.

4. A Coal Tit was ringed as a nestling in a nest box at Pitsford Reservoir on 27th June 2021 and found dead in Loddington village on 15th April 2022 - 292 days later and 8km from where first ringed having moved in a NNE direction;

5. A juvenile Reed Bunting was ringed at Stanford Reservoir on 7th August last year and re-captured at Linford Lakes, Milton Keynes on 27th March this year, this female travelling 44km in a SSE direction from where first ringed with 232 days elapsing between the two captures;

6. A first year Lesser Redpoll was caught and ringed at Hollesley Heath, Suffolk on 12th April 2021 and ended up in a ringer's mist net at Greens Norton on 22nd March this year. Some three hundred and forty-four days had elapsed with the bird 168km further west of where first ringed.

Regards

Neil M