best birds: Update

Another weekly update more like a week and a half.

A bit of fine weather gave me a chance to put a few nets up at some of our garden feeder sites.

111 New Birds Ringed

13 House Sparrow

33 Great Tits

21 Blue Tits

19 Coal Tits

9 Siskin

1 Brambling ( female)

11 Goldfinch

1 Chaffinch

1 Robin

1 Dunnock

1 Blackbird

Female Brambling

The Whoosh site at the Point of Ayre is now bringing in a small flock of Lesser Redpoll which are feeding in with the Twite and Linnets.

17 New Lesser Redpoll ringed

9 New Twite

22 New Linnets

730 Linnets ringed at this site this year (918 the total for the year so far)

Lesser Redpoll at Whoosh Site

Colour ringed Twite at Whoosh Site

2011 was a record year for the Manx ringing Group with 5044 new birds ringed, this year we have passed that number already which is quite surprising as the weather all year has been very wet and quite a few ringing trips have been cancelled due to wind and rain. So hopefully with a nice cold December

we might be able to finish the year on an all time high.