More ringing results

Hello

On Saturday Kenny Cramer and team were ringing at Linford Lakes at Milton Keynes and caught fifty-one birds of sixteen species of which forty-one were newly-ringed. These birds included five Chiffchaffs still, two Blackcaps, seven Goldcrests, six Redwings and three Redpolls. A Starling is a rare capture at this site and a Mistle Thrush is a rare capture anywhere! However Kenny's star bird was a Skylark, only the fourth bird to be ringed here (and a bird rarely caught and processed in the region).

Nick Wood was ringing at Castle Ashby on Sunday for one of his regular ringing demonstrations and amongst the birds he caught and ringed was another rarely-caught Mistle Thrush!

Details of the initial ringing for our controlled Blackcap at Brixworth yesterday have come through - it was originally ringed by Kester Wilson (previous county birder at Stanford Reservoir) as a young male at Nanjizal Valley, Lands End, Cornwall in October last year - sometimes it seems a small world!

Birds at Pitsford Reservoir in the rain this morning included the Wood Sandpiper still just off the causeway plus a Redshank in much the same area plus at least seven Great White Egrets and three Yellow-legged Gulls. A Woodcock was at Lamport Hall this afternoon.

Ten Cattle Egrets and three Great White Egrets were again at the Main Lake at Stanwick Pits this afternoon. An Otter has been seen and well photographed at Summer Leys LNR during the last week.

Regards

Neil M

Lesser Redpoll.

Mistle Thrush.

Skylark.

All images courtesy of
Kenny Cramer.