Rishworth Twite seen at Cley today

 

I got a lovely email from David and Pat Wileman today:

Our friend Tony Aberdein found a couple of your C-R Twite in a flock of 34 feeding in the salt marsh adjacent to Cley West Bank this morning (Dec 11)TG045449. They occasionally went up on wires and he started trying to read the rings but only had bins. We then arrived with scopes and have hopefully
got the full combos. Wondered at first if they might have been Marcus's birds from Kelling (he passed on the details) but they seem to be different.

Bird 1
Left Red over White split ring over Carmine ring.
Right metal (code included the numbers 87) over Yellow over Blue split ring.

Ringed at Rishworh Quarry in September sorry to say the 87 is part of T938700>T938799

First reports of any of the Rishworth birds Yellow /Blue on the right leg with metal

Bird2
Left White over Red split ring over Carmine ring.
Right metal ring.
Didn't see this bird for as long as the first but don't think there was any
ring above the metal.

This Bird was ringed at Whiteholme reservoir SD960199  on the 09/08/2009

Whiteholme had white /red  over Bright Pink

Thanks for the photos as well

Being a Norfolk Boy i cannot blame them for wintering in a fantastic place

 

I got a lovely email from David and Pat Wileman today:

Our friend Tony Aberdein found a couple of your C-R Twite in a flock of 34 feeding in the salt marsh adjacent to Cley West Bank this morning (Dec 11)TG045449. They occasionally went up on wires and he started trying to read the rings but only had bins. We then arrived with scopes and have hopefully
got the full combos. Wondered at first if they might have been Marcus's birds from Kelling (he passed on the details) but they seem to be different.

Bird 1
Left Red over White split ring over Carmine ring.
Right metal (code included the numbers 87) over Yellow over Blue split ring.

Ringed at Rishworh Quarry in September sorry to say the 87 is part of T938700>T938799

First reports of any of the Rishworth birds Yellow /Blue on the right leg with metal

Bird2
Left White over Red split ring over Carmine ring.
Right metal ring.
Didn't see this bird for as long as the first but don't think there was any
ring above the metal.

This Bird was ringed at Whiteholme reservoir SD960199  on the 09/08/2009

Whiteholme had white /red  over Bright Pink

Thanks for the photos as well

Being a Norfolk Boy i cannot blame them for wintering in a fantastic place