Months End

October ends with 502 birds ringed this month, the weather again put a stop to a few planned visits to feeder sites and most of the ringing was at The Whoosh Net site with 240 new Linnets ringed and 14 Twite. Hopefully we will get out to the feeder sites in November if this rain ever stops.

New Birds Ringed are as follows


Meadow Pipit 31
Rock Pipit  1
Wren 3
Dunnock 4
Robin 3
Wheatear 1
Blackbird 4
Chiffchaff 1
House Sparrow 9
Goldcrest 8
Long tailed Tit 6
Coal Tit 17
Blue Tit 7
Great Tit 2
Greenfinch 2
Chaffinch 10
Goldfinch 99 with 3 Controls
Siskin 27
Linnet 240
Twite 14 and 1 Control
Lesser Redpoll 2




Highlights of the month were Twite returning to the Point of Ayre a Belgium Ringed Goldfinch caught in my Garden and Autumn Migration well underway with Whoopers Swans, Fieldfare and Redwing
passing over head in good numbers.

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Whooper Swan over Point of Ayre