New site looks good

Got permission off Yorkshire Water to ring down at Cooper Bridge .

Had a great day to day with 35 Birds ringed

Started of with a few Blackbirds and a Dunnock. I wanted to ring here for the warblers

and then every time a check the nets i was getting Warblers.

7 Willow Warblers ringed today

With

4Chiffchaff

3 Blackcaps

1 adult male Reed Warbler

just as i walk down to do the last net run and pack up i noticed 4 Long Tailed tits in the net with a Willow Warbler so i started extracting them then in the bottom shelve of the net i noticed something different a Lesser Whitethroat.

Top day top place.

other birds ringed were 4 Blackbirds, 2 Blue Tits 4 Robins, 2 Greenfinch 1 Wren and 2 Dunnocks

Lesser Whitethroat

Reed warbler
Willow Warbler

ChiffChaff

Got permission off Yorkshire Water to ring down at Cooper Bridge .

Had a great day to day with 35 Birds ringed

Started of with a few Blackbirds and a Dunnock. I wanted to ring here for the warblers

and then every time a check the nets i was getting Warblers.

7 Willow Warblers ringed today

With

4Chiffchaff

3 Blackcaps

1 adult male Reed Warbler

just as i walk down to do the last net run and pack up i noticed 4 Long Tailed tits in the net with a Willow Warbler so i started extracting them then in the bottom shelve of the net i noticed something different a Lesser Whitethroat.

Top day top place.

other birds ringed were 4 Blackbirds, 2 Blue Tits 4 Robins, 2 Greenfinch 1 Wren and 2 Dunnocks

Lesser Whitethroat

Reed warbler
Willow Warbler

ChiffChaff

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Baby Birds in the Garden

This past week has seen a flurry of activity in the garden in the form of many more baby birds. This year has been an extraordinarily productive one for our feathered friends around here, or so it seems.We have numerous newly fledged House Sparrows and Starlings in the garden this week being fed by the adult birds. That unmistakable fluttering of the wings accompanied by those ever open mouths

This past week has seen a flurry of activity in the garden in the form of many more baby birds. This year has been an extraordinarily productive one for our feathered friends around here, or so it seems.We have numerous newly fledged House Sparrows and Starlings in the garden this week being fed by the adult birds. That unmistakable fluttering of the wings accompanied by those ever open mouths

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Merlins

The Great Pete Roe with brood of Merlins

The Great Pete Roe with brood of Merlins

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fledgelings and chicks

A nice steady week with 3 more Whitethroat caught at EGP 2 were young birds the other an adult Male also Chiffchaff and another Willow Warbler. 3 More Redshank chicks rings and a Common Sandpiper chick. Other birds ringed this week Robin, Greenfinch, Blue Tits, Gt Tit , Chaffinches and Blackbird.

JuvenileWhitethroats

Common Sandpiper chick
Redshank chicks

Andy was out yesterday doing a Merlins nest and 2 broods of Kestrels.

A nice steady week with 3 more Whitethroat caught at EGP 2 were young birds the other an adult Male also Chiffchaff and another Willow Warbler. 3 More Redshank chicks rings and a Common Sandpiper chick. Other birds ringed this week Robin, Greenfinch, Blue Tits, Gt Tit , Chaffinches and Blackbird.

JuvenileWhitethroats

Common Sandpiper chick
Redshank chicks

Andy was out yesterday doing a Merlins nest and 2 broods of Kestrels.

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LAST WEEK

Been away for a few days, so just to catch up early last week 4 Redshank chicks ringed with a few more Willow Warblers and Blackbirds. Sunday the 14 out with Andy at his new site, nice morning with chiff chaffs , LTT, Blackcap, Blackbirds , and Wood Pigeon ringed. Yesterday up to Ringstone where my last nest box with Blue Tits in were ready to ring.

Been away for a few days, so just to catch up early last week 4 Redshank chicks ringed with a few more Willow Warblers and Blackbirds. Sunday the 14 out with Andy at his new site, nice morning with chiff chaffs , LTT, Blackcap, Blackbirds , and Wood Pigeon ringed. Yesterday up to Ringstone where my last nest box with Blue Tits in were ready to ring.

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Taking a bad tern

What a twat! Not since marrying Tina Newcombe at the age of 22 have I made such a bad decision. I'd spent Saturday in the Peak District, walking along Mam Tor with Angela and Matthew and then headed off to my mum's house in Stoke. As we were arriving in Stoke, the pager started bleeping, telling me about the Afrikaan Royal Tern in Land-dudno, Wales. I quickly dropped the family off at mum's and headed off to North Wales. Unfortunately, by the time I got to Chester the bird had flown off high and hadn't been seen for well over an hour. My mind turned to Co. Cork and Black Rock Sands, (where the bird had put in all to brief appearences before heading for the horizon never to be seen again - in the same place anyway) and then to my family waiting patiently at my mum's house. So, I filled up with fuel and stupidly started heading back. 15 minutes later, the pager was bleaping, informing me of the Royal Tern's reappearance. I quick handbrake-turn on the A51 and I was on my way back to North Wales. Unfortunately, by the time I arrived (6.30 pm) the bird really had disappeared. An all too brief return by the bird for 5 luck observers (of which I wasn't one) at 8pm was the only other time it might have been seen. The worst of it is, is that the bird flew off at 6pm, 20 minutes before I arrived. Had I not turned around and lost half-an-hour, I would have arrived on site at about 5.50 and seen the bird for about 10 minutes before if flew off.
Why did I turn round? Why!!!!!???

What a twat! Not since marrying Tina Newcombe at the age of 22 have I made such a bad decision. I'd spent Saturday in the Peak District, walking along Mam Tor with Angela and Matthew and then headed off to my mum's house in Stoke. As we were arriving in Stoke, the pager started bleeping, telling me about the Afrikaan Royal Tern in Land-dudno, Wales. I quickly dropped the family off at mum's and headed off to North Wales. Unfortunately, by the time I got to Chester the bird had flown off high and hadn't been seen for well over an hour. My mind turned to Co. Cork and Black Rock Sands, (where the bird had put in all to brief appearences before heading for the horizon never to be seen again - in the same place anyway) and then to my family waiting patiently at my mum's house. So, I filled up with fuel and stupidly started heading back. 15 minutes later, the pager was bleaping, informing me of the Royal Tern's reappearance. I quick handbrake-turn on the A51 and I was on my way back to North Wales. Unfortunately, by the time I arrived (6.30 pm) the bird really had disappeared. An all too brief return by the bird for 5 luck observers (of which I wasn't one) at 8pm was the only other time it might have been seen. The worst of it is, is that the bird flew off at 6pm, 20 minutes before I arrived. Had I not turned around and lost half-an-hour, I would have arrived on site at about 5.50 and seen the bird for about 10 minutes before if flew off.
Why did I turn round? Why!!!!!???

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Early Birds

Five o'clock,I look out of the house.Nothing is stirring,Not even a Mouse.Well that is not strictly true, because a male House Sparrow is stirring in the garden. A Woodpigeon flies across my field of vision to perch atop the large Conifer. He or she, of course I know not which, is soon accompanied by one of the resident male Blackbirds. I wonder if they might be exchanging early morning

Five o'clock,I look out of the house.Nothing is stirring,Not even a Mouse.Well that is not strictly true, because a male House Sparrow is stirring in the garden. A Woodpigeon flies across my field of vision to perch atop the large Conifer. He or she, of course I know not which, is soon accompanied by one of the resident male Blackbirds. I wonder if they might be exchanging early morning

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